2020-8-10 13:21 |
Blockchain is making further inroads with municipal authorities in China, as the mayor of Loudi supports its use to combat crime.
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Finnish exchanges remain the most popular destination for illegal cryptocurrency proceeds. The Scandinavian nation has dubiously claimed the title for the third year in a row. In its Spring 2020 crypto crime and AML report, the blockchain tracking firm CipherTrace revealed that exchanges in Finland and Russia account for most of the illicit funds.
2020-6-3 21:04 | |
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Criminals have been drawn to cryptocurrencies for some time. Governments in Europe are now joining forces to put an end to this illicit activity. According to local sources, France’s NIGMA Conseil and Austria’s Institute of Technology are joining forces.
2020-2-27 02:00 | |
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Blockchain analysis offers a glimpse into potentially illegal behavior. Now, French and Austrian technology experts are joining forces to tackle crypto-based money laundering. Visualized Blockchain Connections Reveal Potential Illegal Usage The French blockchain security company NIGMA Conseil, and the Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), have signed an agreement of cooperation on tracking crypto crime.
2020-2-26 20:00 | |
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On Monday, the blockchain surveillance company Chainalysis published an excerpt from the firm’s upcoming crime report that will publish in January. According to the Chainalysis research, the Ponzi scheme called Plustoken not only defrauded investors out of $3 billion but the scam “may also be driving down the price of bitcoin.
2019-12-17 16:00 | |
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Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis will provide crypto exchange Bitfinex with tools to monitor and combat suspected financial crime
2019-12-13 14:57 | |
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Criminals have used XRP to carry out their illicit activities, though hardly to the same degree as bitcoin, according to a new report from blockchain sleuthing firm Elliptic.
2019-11-21 16:00 | |
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Ledger, a security and infrastructure solution provider for cryptocurrency and blockchain applications, today announced it has obtained a $150 million crime insurance policy covering assets secured by the Ledger Vault institutional security platform.
2019-11-14 20:14 | |
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Binance Compliance unit has been cooperating with UK Police in an investigation regarding the creation and sale of phishing scripts. A Bulgarian citizen has been extradited to the UK as part of an investigation that found him guilty for illegally pinching personal data of around 500,00 users across 53 different platforms according to Binance officialRead MoreRead More.
2019-9-28 21:00 | |
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U.S. Congress wants FinCEN director to study blockchain in its fight against financial crime
2019-9-25 01:40 | |
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The crypto industry has been plagued with issues pertaining to the security of these assets and financial crimes that are committed using these digital assets. There are some industry players that have come together in a bid to fight against crypto crimes.
2019-9-6 20:50 | |
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A new database called the Blockchain Litigation Database is making easier for law firms to provide legal services to crypto-sector clients concerned about compliance issues with the SEC and CFTC.
2019-8-7 23:12 | |
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International investigators warn the ‘Ndrangheta mafia family now resembles a “criminal blockchain” following the recent decentralization of its internal power structures. Usually, ‘Ndrangheta families in Canada took orders from “mother clans” in Calabria, but for the first time, mobsters outside of Siderno are making decisions that impact operations all the way back to Italy, reports National Post.
2019-7-25 16:24 | |
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Cryptocurrency gets a bad rap, and the media loves to associate virtual currencies with criminal activity. But an immutable ledger is actually more useful as a tool to fight crime than it is for would-be criminals, as researchers, law enforcement and criminals are learning very quickly all over the world.
2019-7-23 00:24 | |
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Crypto compliance and investigation provider Chainalysis has become the only blockchain company to make Forbes’ next billion-dollar startups list of 2019, joining the ranks of tech giants—Patreon and Duolingo.
2019-7-20 13:16 | |
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In a bid to enlighten high-ranking police personnel on the workings of blockchain technology and equip them with the critical skills required to carry out investigations concerning Bitcoin-linked crimes, India’s national police academy, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA), has introduced a new educational course, reports Hard Fork on July 7, 2019.
2019-7-9 23:00 | |
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According to a July 5, 2019, report by The Times of India, State Crime Investigation Department (CID) has unearthed yet another cryptocurrency scam in Surat, India, which is estimated to have defrauded investors of more than $180,000.
2019-7-6 21:00 | |
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According to a June 21, 2019, article by local crime news outlet Posta, Israeli police has arrested two brothers named Eli Gigi and Assaf Gigi on the suspicion of partaking in cryptocurrency phishing attacks and getting involved in the infamous 2016 Bitfinex hack.
2019-6-24 23:00 | |
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According to a report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on June 3, 2019, it is conducting an ongoing investigation alongside the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, and the Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section to seek victims who lostRead MoreRead More.
2019-6-5 13:00 | |
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By CCN: The FBI officially expanded the QuadrigaCX case, in which the founder suspiciously died, and more than $100 million in cryptocurrency was lost, to the United States today. The agency took to Twitter to ask for US-based victims of the crime to come forward.
2019-6-5 09:33 | |
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At the beginning of last month, May 2019, it was quite devastating to learn about a security hack that resulted in the loss of over $40 million worth of Bitcoins. This was quite a blow to Binance, one of the leading Blockchain exchanges today.
2019-6-2 10:39 | |
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Law forces in Brazil have clamped down on a cryptocurrency crime cartel accused of duping more than 55 thousand investors of more than approximately $248 million, The Next Web reports, May 22, 2019. Crypto Criminals Nabbed The ease of committing crimes in the crypto industry has worried regulators with several taking extreme measures in theRead MoreRead More.
2019-5-23 14:00 | |
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It looks as if cryptocurrency service providers will have to adopt stricter know-your-customer (KYC) policies all across the world — and not everyone is happy about that.
2019-5-13 21:33 | |
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The world of crypto and blockchain technologies evolves every day, and along with it, criminals also find new forms of delinquency. However, crime does not pay, and the field of cybersecurity also evolves at a.
2019-4-10 10:50 | |
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A scam group has been arrested in Seoul for stealing over $18 million from victims after being caught by an artificial intelligence (AI) program, Korea JoongAng Daily reports on April 8, 2019. Big Crime, Big Time Crypto-related crimes are quite wide and varied.
2019-4-9 20:00 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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Seoul prosecutors announced on March 5, 2019, that they are forming a “Task Force” with the sole purpose of fighting off crypto and fintech-related crimes of fraud as reported by the country’s News1 Agency.
2019-3-7 10:00 | |
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A New York Man has been charged with four counts of wire fraud and three counts of unlawful monetary transactions after peddling a false coin to investors, the Department of Justice revealed on February 27, 2019.
2019-3-2 20:00 | |
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Circle a U. S-based peer-to-peer cryptocurrency finance company, has contracted NICE Actimize, a leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, to implement market surveillance and protection strategy, reports Finextra February 27, 2019.
2019-3-1 18:00 | |
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Circle is interested in improving the quality of its trading services. In order to do so, the firm partnered with NICE Actimize, a New York-based provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions, to enhance the company’s exchange.
2019-2-28 18:23 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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MyEtherWallet (MEW) now allows its customers to conduct trades of up to $5,000 without KYC protocols, as announced via a press release on February 20, 2019. New Rules One of the most talked-about issues in crypto is the issue of privacy.
2019-2-25 22:00 | |
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The National Cyber Forensic Lab has been created under the Union Home ministry’s Cyber Crime Coordination Center. The unit will focus its energy on cryptocurrency-related crimes to help police officers detect cyber fraud.
2019-2-20 06:00 | |
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Money Button, a Bitcoin Cash SV (BSV) specific payment app which recently made news rounds for child abuse image distribution on the network’s blockchain ledger has addressed the abhorring crime in a blog post published on February 7, 2019.
2019-2-9 10:00 | |
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A new report from CipherTrace suggests that hackers stole $1. 7 billion worth of digital currency from investors in 2018 as organized crime is becoming more common. A separate report from Chainalysis suggests that two sophisticated criminal groups stole $1 billion, accounting for a massive portion of total cryptocurrency hacks.
2019-2-2 15:59 | |
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Two “prominent professional hacking groups” are responsible for the majority of publicly reported hacks of cryptocurrency exchanges and other cryptocurrency organizations, concludes a report published by blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis this week.
2019-2-2 01:45 | |
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Darknet markets are going as strong as ever, if Chainalysis data is to be believed. In its latest Crypto Crime Report, published earlier this week, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reports that darknet market activity has nearly doubled throughout 2018.
2019-2-1 00:35 | |
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On December 26th, popular crypto news outlet Cointelegraph has reported that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) will partner with Doc. com, a telemedicine and a telepsychology firm to grow on the healthcare services in East Africa.
2018-12-27 19:20 | |
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The Times of India reported on December 20, 2018, that the cyber crime branch of Pune police had seized 452 bitcoins worth $1. 8 million from one of the ten suspects involved in a cryptocurrency related Ponzi scheme case.
2018-12-21 01:00 | |
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According to an article published by The Irish Times, on December 17, 2018, the High Court Bench in Ireland made a groundbreaking ruling. Authorities stated that ether (ETH) held by criminals serving time for the sale of illicit drugs constitutes the proceeds of crime.
2018-12-20 02:00 | |
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It is no secret that crime has moved online. Cybercrime has been identified as one of the biggest risks to society by the World Economic Forum Global Risk Report 2018. One of the primary drivers behind the boom in cybercrime is the ease of availability of hacking tools as well as a rising Crime-as-a-Service industry found on the dark web.
2018-11-23 00:00 | |
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As blockchain and crypto both continue to grow, so does the crime around them. It’s clear to see that… The post Smart Contract Security Has Some Gaping Holes — Here’s How to Plug Them appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2018-11-20 13:02 | |
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$68. 42 Million Stolen In Bitcoin Scheme Since Bitcoin’s inception, a mere decade ago, malicious users of the world’s first blockchain have sought to capitalize on the pseudonymous and anti-governmental nature of the Bitcoin Network and other crypto platforms.
2018-11-15 09:00 | |
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Crypto crime is a major focus of the mainstream business press. And to be fair, the blockchain space has had more than its share of anonymous thefts for vast sums of money. But nowhere near as many as the legacy banking system, which often demonstrates breathtaking audacity in how it flouts the law or fails […] The post Stuff Like That Is Going To Happen: Goldman Sachs Chair On $6bn Theft appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2018-11-3 19:27 | |
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The local police have confiscated the recently launched Bitcoin ATM in India by Unocoin Technologies on the grounds of it being “illegal” as it was set up without any government approvals, The Times of India reports October 24, 2018.
2018-10-25 07:00 | |
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Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.
2018-10-24 19:38 | |
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Blockchain and cryptocurrency have been facing pressure from every side on the need to regulate the industry and bring it under the control of government authorities. The government claims the idea is to protect users of the technology and combat crime which appears to have infiltrated the industry.
2018-10-19 18:17 | |
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Rob Jesudason, the president of EOS software publisher Block. one, has written a Medium article in which he criticizes KYC and AML measures as they currently exist. Jesudason argues that KYC/AML procedures frequently fail to stop crime and place a burden on users without good reason.
2018-10-18 19:44 | |
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There are some stories involving Bitcoin, crime, and blockchain forensics that could be straight out of a movie plot. Grab the popcorn, and we shall begin. The post On the Frontline: How Blockchain Forensics Fight Crypto Crimes appeared first on CoinCentral.
2018-10-17 23:26 | |
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Nouriel Roubini, an economist best known for his predictions of the 2008 housing bubble, and Peter Van Valkenburgh, Coin Center’s director of research, testified before the U.
2018-10-12 18:06 | |
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