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“Of the 4,536 Bitcoins converted from ether at RenBridge, 2,849 BTC was sent through mixers, predominantly a service called ChipMixer,” Ellipic said. “Tracing these assets becomes more challenging, however at least $4 million was transferred to exchanges, where it may have been cashed out.” Source
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Although the funds always came to the exchange via intermediary wallets, Chainalysis found instances in which the wallet receiving ransomware proceeds sent funds directly to the mining pool wallet, which then sent the coins to the exchange. This might mean that both the ransomware- and mining-related wallets belong to the
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sponsored According to the latest UN statistics, global money laundering transactions reach up to $2 trillion a year. A small fraction of that huge amount passes through the digital assets ecosystem, and responsible actors in it are working to bring that down even more. As the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange,
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Yesterday, security researcher KrebsOnSecurity reported that several cryptocurrency platforms hosted by popular hosting provider Godaddy have been attacked over the past week.According to KrebsOnSecurity, the attacks began on or around November 13th on cryptocurrency trading platform liquid.com.Liquid CEO Mike Kayamori said GoDaddy incorrectly transferred control of the account and domain
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NZX has halted trading for the third day in a row as a result of cybercriminals attempting to extort cryptocurrency. Source
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A group of researchers from SophosLabs state that hackers operating the cryptojacking malware, Glupteba, have been using the Bitcoin blockchain network to communicate in secret.According to the report published on June 24, cybercriminals rely on a command and control center where they send encrypted secret messages that require a 256-bit
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The multinational cybersecurity and antivirus company Kaspersky has released info about its cybersecurity services that are aimed at protecting crypto and blockchain-oriented companies from cybercriminals.According to CipherTrace’s Cryptocurrency and Anti-Money Laundering research, the global crypto ecosystem lost up to a whopping $4.26 billion to criminals and fraudsters in the first
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With cybercrimes associated with virtual currencies are continuously on the rise, it is more critical than ever to have security agencies and financial regulators actively scouting this emerging crypto space.Although cyber crimes have been around for several decades now, we can all attest to the fact that these criminals take
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