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Twitter Hackers Arrested—Blockchain Analysis Traces the Bitcoin to Teenage Hackers
Tracing Ransomware: CipherTrace Helps McAfee Follow NetWalker Funds
On August 3, cybersecurity firm McAfee released new researching showing the activities of NetWalker—ransomware that has collected…
Twitter Hackers Arrested—Blockchain Analysis Traces the Bitcoin to Teenage Hackers
UPDATED 7/31 Three Charged for Role in Twitter Hack On July 31, three individuals were…
Twitter Hacked—Insiders Compromise Social Media Giant
On July 15, Twitter accounts for multiple high-profile cryptocurrency exchanges, public figures, and various entities…
Revised FATF Standards on Virtual Assets 12-Month Review
Jurisdictions Race to Implement Regulation Regimes for Virtual Asset Service Providers while Industry Develops Travel…
How Impending Virtual Asset Regulations Impact Banks—Even Those That Don’t Think They Do Crypto
As more mainstream consumer and institutional investors embrace cryptocurrencies, it becomes increasingly difficult, if not…
Simplifying Global Payment Compliance– TRISA’s Travel Rule Solution Welcomes Interoperability with PayID
Over the past year, Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) have been scrambling to prepare for…
On Cryptocurrency Tracing Companies and Privacy on the Blockchain
I would like to address the issue of the privacy of cryptocurrency transactions, and the…
COVID-19 Update
As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, CipherTrace is focused on the health of our employees and…
Analysis: How Chinese Nationals Linked to North Korea Laundered Hundreds of Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Stolen Cryptocurrency Through Several Banks and Cryptocurrency Exchanges
CipherTrace has previously reported on North Korea using cybercrime to avert economic sanctions and raise…
SANCTIONS ALERT: New DRPK Crypto-related Designations
SANCTIONS UPDATE: On March 2, 2020, the following two individuals and their associated digital currency…
OCC Hits New York Based Bank With First-Ever Enforcement Action for Lack of Crypto AML Compliance
On January 30, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued the first…
Fighting Human Trafficking by Following the Money
If you travel a lot – especially during January 2020, which was National Slavery and…
Crypto Comes of Age: Cryptocurrency Travel Rule Compliance Conference and Hackathon Recap
Some in the cryptocurrency community were caught off guard when the global financial watchdog, the…
ALERT: Tracing extorted bitcoin
CIPHERTRACE GLOBAL ALERT: New Phishing Attack Claims to Have Webcam Video of Victims Performing Embarrassing…
Could Cryptocurrency Analytics Tip the Balance in America’s War on Opioids?
At the core of a growing opioid crisis is the deadliest drug in the US—Fentanyl.…
CipherTrace Announces Travel Rule Information Sharing Architecture (TRISA)
Two key regulatory bodies recently rocked the foundation of the crypto economy with new…
SANCTIONS ALERT: Treasury Targets Chinese Drug Kingpins Fueling America’s Deadly Opioid Crisis
SANCTIONS UPDATE: On August 21, 2019, the following individuals and their associated digital currency addresses have…
Everything You Need to Know About NYSDF BitLicense
Since its inception in 2015, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYSDFS) BitLicense has been…
Cryptocurrency Exchanges Grappling with New FATF Rule Requiring Disclosure of Customer Information
Governments have a new “travel rule” coming your way, and it has nothing to do…
Three Ways to Prevent Exchange Hacks
The recent hack of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, highlights the need for heightened…
Response to FATF Regarding Regulation and Monitoring of Virtual Asset Service Providers
In October 2018, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) amended its Recommendation to clarify how…
CipherTrace Statement on Blockchain Analytics Privacy
In light of recent events regarding the acquisition of blockchain analytics company Neutrino, CipherTrace wants…
CipherTrace Analysis of Paymon, Iran’s Sanction Evading Crypto-Rial
This analysis by CipherTrace looks at Iran’s proposed Crypto-Rial sovereign virtual currency. We conclude that…
ALERT: Crypto Dusting is a New Type of Blockchain Spam that Corrodes Reputations and Impacts Cryptocurrency AML
People use mixers/tumblers as an attempt to preserve privacy when transacting with Bitcoin and other…
Criminal Bitcoin — How Deep is The Dark Side of the Most Widely Traded Cryptocurrency?
Bitcoin and blockchain technologies are sparking innovation in financial technology (FinTech), but they do have…
FinCEN Director Lauds Crypto Innovation While Citing Need to Reign in Bad Actors
Treasury working closely with the IRS for examination Some surprising facts regarding the state of…
CipherTrace Maltego Transform
CipherTrace Integration into Maltego Significantly Expands Bitcoin Forensics Capabilities Maltego is a popular security research…
ALERT: Spike in bitcoin extortion
CIPHERTRACE GLOBAL ALERT: Spike in Extortion Scams Demanding Bitcoin Payment Global Alert, August 3, 2018:…
Q2 Crypto AML Report Summary
Recently released research by CipherTrace has been making the news partly because of some surprising…
Trump Task Force to Fight Crypto Fraud
New Presidential Task Force Aims to Fight Cryptocurrency Fraud With the lure of big returns…
SEC Crypto Czar and CipherTrace CEO at SINET
CipherTrace CEO Leads SINET Panel that Includes New SEC ‘Crypto Czar’ On June 7, 2018,…
GDPR Threatens to Impair Cryptocurrency Crime Investigations
CipherTrace Cryptocurrency Threat Bulletin The European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) https://www.eugdpr.org), which…
Coinbase’s Response To New York AG’s Request
Coinbase’s Response To New York AG’s Request Reveals Shocking Cost of Compliance In April, New…
Japan Bitcoin Regulation Benefits
REINING IN THE WILD EAST Almost five years ago, an event in Japan rocked people’s…
Ledger Bitcoin Wallet Hacked by 15 Year Old Researcher
Ledger hardware wallets have been thoroughly compromised by a 15-year-old researcher, Rashid Saleem, using very…
First Presidential Cryptocurrency Order Blocks Venezuela’s Petro
Monday, March 19, 2018, President Trump issued the first presidential cryptocurrency order showing that this…
Crypto Innovation is a Cambrian Explosion
Applied Cryptography Innovation is a Cambrian Explosion that will Transform the Next 50 Years of…