2+ week, 5+ day ago   (115+ words) Crypto Briefing The blockchain analytics firm uncovered a darkweb CSAM operation that processed over $530,000 in crypto payments across thousands of wallet addresses since 2022. Chainalysis traced the CSAM site’s financial footprint across thousands of addresses. The sheer volume of transactions, more…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (266+ words) Joint US-Cambodia raids seized $7 million in crypto assets and over 200 kilograms of illegal drugs tied to the Mexican cartel's laundering network A joint operation between Cambodian and US anti-drug agencies dismantled a cryptocurrency money laundering network allegedly run on behalf…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (395+ words) transactions far harder to trace. Tether, as a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar, lets criminal organizations...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (370+ words) Tether, the issuer of the world’s most widely used stablecoin, cooperated with investigators to identify and...scrutiny over the years from critics who argue its stablecoin infrastructure has been used to move illicit...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (356+ words) A multinational operation took down the Sality botnet, which quietly hijacked clipboard data to redirect Bitcoin and Ethereum transactions to attacker-controlled wallets. A coordinated strike by CrowdStrike, the DOJ, the FBI, and European law enforcement has dismantled a peer-to-peer botnet…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (224+ words) A former crypto-asset CEO is contesting US fraud charges in a London court, raising human rights arguments that could set precedent for the industry The defendant’s legal team has mounted an unusual defense. Rather than contesting the substance of the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (355+ words) otherwise leave behind. Tether, the dollar-pegged stablecoin, has become particularly popular among these...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (455+ words) Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau reveals organized crime groups are using rented security boxes to hide the off-chain keys needed to access on-chain wealth. Organized crime in Ireland has found an analog solution to a digital problem. Instead of trying to…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (430+ words) Violent theft attempts against crypto holders are surging in volume but failing at record rates, with France emerging as the global epicenter of so-called wrench attacks. Crypto criminals are swinging more often but connecting less. According to a Chainalysis report…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (210+ words) The partnership will focus on transnational organized crime groups operating scam compounds. The US and UK are forming a new joint alliance to disrupt global scam centers that use crypto and cyber-enabled investment fraud to steal money from victims. Under…...