UPDATED 7/31 Three Charged for Role in Twitter Hack On July 31, three individuals were charged for their alleged roles in the July 15 Twitter hack— Mason Sheppard, aka “Chaewon,” 19, from the United Kingdom; Nima Fazeli, aka “Rolex,” 22,…
On July 15, Twitter accounts for multiple high-profile cryptocurrency exchanges, public figures, and various entities were taken over by hackers promoting a Bitcoin Doubler scam. Shortly after 12pm PST, the Twitter accounts for AngeloBTC, Binance, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, CoinDesk,…
CipherTrace has previously reported on North Korea using cybercrime to avert economic sanctions and raise hard cash to fund its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) development. For example, in August 2017, we revealed details of a then unreleased UN research…
SANCTIONS UPDATE: On March 2, 2020, the following two individuals and their associated digital currency addresses have been added to OFAC’s SDN List. The two Chinese nationals were involved in laundering stolen cryptocurrency from a 2018 cryptocurrency exchange hack and…
Some in the cryptocurrency community were caught off guard when the global financial watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), recently endorsed much tougher guidelines for monitoring and transferring virtual assets. Its “Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach to Virtual Assets…
At the core of a growing opioid crisis is the deadliest drug in the US—Fentanyl. According to Canada’s RCMP and the US DEA, the lethal dose for pure Fentanyl is estimated at 2 milligrams (mgs) for a typical adult. To…