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Shelbit reaches peak monthly volume of USD 735 million.(2025-11-01:siavash-kayvanpour-ofac-designated-shelbit-founder)event
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Researchers inform Binance about Shelbit's alleged ties to Iran. Binance disputes the allegations.(2025-10-01:siavash-kayvanpour-ofac-designated-shelbit-founder)event
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Shelbit addresses send approximately USD 2 million to a wallet subsequently designated by Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing as Hamas infrastructure.(2025-09-17:siavash-kayvanpour-ofac-designated-shelbit-founder)event
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Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) issues cease-and-desist order against Shelbit General Trading LLC for operating without a license, failing KYC requirements, and marketing services in Dubai without authorization. VARA publishes a notice of fines.(2025-01-02:siavash-kayvanpour-ofac-designated-shelbit-founder)event
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Shelbit Exchange begins operations. TRM Labs traces blockchain flows from this date forward.(2024-05-01:siavash-kayvanpour-ofac-designated-shelbit-founder)event
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Siavash Kayvanpour, Sasha Sobhani, and Pooyan Mokhtari convicted in absentia by Iranian courts for illegal gambling activity. Kayvanpour received a three-month sentence for assisting the operation; Sobhani and Mokhtari received two-year sentences.(2023-01-01:siavash-kayvanpour-ofac-designated-shelbit-founder)event
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Judge K. Michael Moore enters approximately $46.2 million default judgment against Pires and Capuci in the SEC's MCC International / Mining Capital Coin civil enforcement action.(2025-08-26:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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CFTC obtains default judgment against Pires and Goncalves in the EmpiresX case: jointly and severally ordered to pay more than $32 million in disgorgement and more than $96 million in civil monetary penalties (approximately $128 million total). Permanent trading and registration bans imposed.(2025-02-04:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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Brazilian Federal Police conduct Operation Yang, executing 25 search and seizure warrants and two arrest warrants across multiple states. Reports indicate Pires was arrested in Florianopolis.(2023-09-13:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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DOJ files notice transferring Pires and Goncalves to fugitive status in the EmpiresX criminal case after they flee to Brazil.(2022-07-01:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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DOJ, SEC, and CFTC file parallel criminal and civil charges against Pires, Goncalves, and Nicholas in connection with the EmpiresX scheme, alleging approximately $100 million in investor losses.(2022-06-30:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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DOJ announces criminal indictment of Luiz Carlos Capuci Jr. in connection with the MCC Mining Capital Coin scheme, alleging a $62 million fraud.(2022-05-09:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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SEC files civil fraud complaint against MCC International Corp., Emerson Sousa Pires, Luiz Carlos Capuci Jr., CPTLCoin Corp., and Bitchain Exchanges.(2022-04-22:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida issues a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against MCC International Corp., Capuci, and Pires following SEC complaint.(2022-04-21:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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EmpiresX stops honoring investor withdrawal requests.(2021-11-01:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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Pires and Goncalves launch EmpiresX (Empires Consulting Corp.) in South Florida, soliciting investors for an alleged cryptocurrency trading platform using a purported algorithmic 'bot'.(2020-09-01:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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MCC International Corp. (Mining Capital Coin) allegedly begins selling fraudulent mining packages to investors, promising 1% daily returns. Pires and Capuci are co-founders.(2018-01-01:emerson-sousa-pires)event
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Judge K. Michael Moore (S.D. Fla.) enters a $46 million default judgment against Capuci, Pires, MCC International, CPTLCoin Corp., and Bitchain Exchanges, comprising ~$28.5M disgorgement, ~$7.8M prejudgment interest, and civil monetary penalties.(2025-08-26:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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U.S. magistrate judge recommends approximately $28 million in disgorgement against Capuci, Pires, and related entities in the SEC civil case.(2025-02-01:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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Criminal trial against Capuci begins in Brazil.(2024-08-21:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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U.S. law firm Wellman & Warren LLP withdraws from representing Capuci, citing inability to pay; local counsel Gregg S. Lerman follows on August 22, 2024.(2024-08-02:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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Brazilian Federal Police launch Operation Yang; Capuci and Pires are arrested. Authorities freeze up to R$300 million (~$55M USD) in bank accounts and block 52 properties across Brazil.(2023-09-13:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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U.S. court lifts the stay on the SEC civil case.(2023-06-10:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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Capuci's appeal of the SEC preliminary injunction is denied.(2023-05-31:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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U.S. court grants SEC permission to serve Capuci via email through his U.S.-based attorneys after international service delays.(2023-03-08:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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Brazilian Federal Police open a criminal investigation based on intelligence provided by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).(2022-08-01:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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DOJ unseals indictment against Capuci (Case No. 22-20173-CR-Altonaga, S.D. Fla.) charging conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, and international money laundering; maximum exposure of 45 years.(2022-05-05:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida issues a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against Capuci, Pires, MCC International, CPTLCoin Corp., and Bitchain Exchanges.(2022-04-21:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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MCC International Corp. (Mining Capital Coin) begins selling mining packages to investors, promising 1% daily returns paid weekly for up to 52 weeks.(2018-01-01:luiz-carlos-capuci-jr)event
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U.S. District Court enters a combined $46 million default judgment against MCC International Corp., CPTLCoin Corp., Bitchain Exchanges, Capuci, and Pires, comprising approximately $28.5 million in disgorgement and $7.8 million in prejudgment interest.(2025-08-26:mcc-international-corp-cptlcoin-corp-bitchain-exchanges)event
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Brazil's Federal Police launch Operation Yang, executing 25 search and seizure warrants across 8 states; Emerson Pires is reported arrested in Florianopolis; R$300 million in bank accounts frozen and 52 properties blocked.(2023-09-13:mcc-international-corp-cptlcoin-corp-bitchain-exchanges)event
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Brazilian authorities open an independent criminal investigation into MCC founders for alleged money laundering of up to R$300 million.(2022-08-01:mcc-international-corp-cptlcoin-corp-bitchain-exchanges)event
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DOJ unseals criminal indictment against Luiz Carlos Capuci Jr. for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, securities fraud, and international money laundering in connection with the alleged $62 million scheme.(2022-05-08:mcc-international-corp-cptlcoin-corp-bitchain-exchanges)event
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SEC publicly announces fraud charges against MCC International Corp., CPTLCoin Corp., Bitchain Exchanges, Luiz Carlos Capuci Jr., and Emerson Sousa Pires.(2022-05-06:mcc-international-corp-cptlcoin-corp-bitchain-exchanges)event
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U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida issues a temporary restraining order against all defendants and freezes their assets at the SEC's request.(2022-04-21:mcc-international-corp-cptlcoin-corp-bitchain-exchanges)event
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MCC International Corp. (Mining Capital Coin) begins selling fraudulent mining packages to investors, promising 1% daily returns paid weekly.(2018-01-01:mcc-international-corp-cptlcoin-corp-bitchain-exchanges)event
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The Hacker News reports over 250 ClickFix domains using browser fingerprinting to serve platform-specific macOS malware lures, indicating campaign infrastructure has scaled to hundreds of distinct lure domains.(2026-08-08:clickfix-bnb-chain-etherhiding-malware-campaign)event
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Huntress researchers separately document a Go-based macOS infostealer delivered via ClickFix attacks, capable of partially redirecting cryptocurrency transactions without fully emptying wallets to evade detection.(2026-08-07:clickfix-bnb-chain-etherhiding-malware-campaign)event
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Microsoft Security Blog publicly discloses the CryptoBandits malware: a clipboard hijacker polling every 500 milliseconds for cryptocurrency wallet addresses, propagating via USB worm, and routing C2 traffic through Tor. Trojan:Win32/CryptoBandits.A detection name assigned.(2026-06-17:clickfix-bnb-chain-etherhiding-malware-campaign)event
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Researchers discover the Omnistealer campaign using TRON, Aptos, and BNB Chain blockchains for on-chain payload delivery to steal credentials, cloud account data, passwords, and cryptocurrency wallet contents, demonstrating multi-chain expansion of the EtherHiding model.(2026-04-01:clickfix-bnb-chain-etherhiding-malware-campaign)event
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CryptoBandits malware campaign begins activity, distributing clipboard-hijacking and USB-worm components via malicious .lnk payloads. Microsoft later identifies the campaign as active from at least February 2026.(2026-02-01:clickfix-bnb-chain-etherhiding-malware-campaign)event
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Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reports that DPRK-linked threat actor UNC5342 has adopted the EtherHiding technique in fake job interview social engineering campaigns targeting software developers, marking the first documented nation-state use of the technique.(2025-10-01:clickfix-bnb-chain-etherhiding-malware-campaign)event
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The Hacker News and Guardz publicly document the EtherHiding technique for the first time, describing it as 'the next level of bulletproof hosting' and attributing it to the ClearFake campaign targeting WordPress sites.(2023-10-16:clickfix-bnb-chain-etherhiding-malware-campaign)event
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ClearFake campaign begins using EtherHiding technique on BNB Smart Chain, storing malicious payload JavaScript inside on-chain smart contracts. Guardz researchers later document this as the first known EtherHiding campaign.(2023-08-01:clickfix-bnb-chain-etherhiding-malware-campaign)event
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Zenith Security publicly confirmed it would cooperate with investigators and stated it had identified IP-level information about the operators to share with authorities. On-chain analysts BrutalTrade and SpecterAnalyst published wallet address linkages. Alleged prior projects ZinoFinance, Zero-G Finance, and PerfectSwap were identified as linked to the same operator network.(2025-09-27:hypervault-finance)event
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PeckShield publicly flagged 'abnormal withdrawal of ~$3.6M worth of crypto from @hypervaultfi.' Approximately 752 ETH (estimated $3 million) was confirmed deposited into Tornado Cash. Hypervault's website, X account, Discord server, and GitHub repositories were all deleted. The Block, Decrypt, CryptoNews, and other outlets began covering the incident.(2025-09-26:hypervault-finance)event
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Rug pull executed. All nine Hypervault vaults on HyperEVM were drained by the project operators using privileged contract access. Funds were bridged from Hyperliquid to Ethereum via deBridge.(2025-09-25:hypervault-finance)event
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TVL on Hypervault reached approximately $4.97–6.01 million according to DefiLlama, representing peak depositor exposure ahead of the drain.(2025-09-24:hypervault-finance)event
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Zenith Security delivered a private draft audit report to the Hypervault team identifying 42 vulnerabilities — 6 high severity and 10 medium severity — with a recommendation for full re-audit after remediation. The report was never publicly disclosed by the project.(2025-09-21:hypervault-finance)event
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Hypervault publicly announced that an audit had commenced with Zenith Security, a legitimate audit firm.(2025-09-14:hypervault-finance)event
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