New York's attorney general announced up to $35m from Celsius's former chief executive and a permanent industry ban. The consent order shows the money falls due only if he fails to pay $10m to federal prosecutors or his prison sentence is cut.
The CFTC's complaint against Cash FX puts $950 million into a forex pool that promised up to 15 per cent a week from traders, bots and artificial intelligence. Americans put in at least $27 million of it. The loss the Commission alleges is $406 million, and the scheme it describes ended almost three years before the suit.
Revolut says an impersonator used a legitimate government email domain to file fraudulent data requests. The control that fails here is one almost every institution relies on.
Federal advisories describe the same route into hardened companies: a phone call, a password reset, and an MFA token moved to a new device.
Synthetic audio and video have broken trust in familiar channels, and treasury teams are reverting to procedure over recognition.