The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced that Shakeeb Ahmed, a former security engineer for an international technology company, was arrested in New York on suspicion of defrauding a DeFi exchange and stealing $9 million. In what the agency said was the first criminal case involving an attack on a smart contract operated by a decentralized exchange, Shakeeb Ahmed, 34, of New York, N.Y., laundered the stolen funds through a complex series of transfers on a blo...