Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
“This will not be the last time — the U.S. government will continue to aggressively pursue the entire ransomware ecosystem and increase our nation's resilience to cyber threats," said Att...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
“This will not be the last time — the U.S. government will continue to aggressively pursue the entire ransomware ecosystem and increase our nation’s resilience to cyber threats,” said Att...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
“The vast majority of digital assets are being used for legitimate purposes, but for those that are primarily in the business of furthering criminal enterprises, we plan to use our tools...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Department of the Treasury says that the growing use of crypto assets challenges the efficacy of American sanctions. “We are mindful of the risk that, if left unchecked, these digital assets and payments systems could harm the eff...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The plea deal ends a nearly two-year legal battle between Griffith and U.S. prosecutors tied to a presentation the developer gave in Pyongyang. Ethereum (ETH) develo...
Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 2 years ago
American programmer and developer Virgil Griffith pleaded guilty today to violating U.S. sanctions law. Griffith created Wikipedia indexing tool WikiScanner, co-designed the Tor2web proxy, and was a senior research scientist with the Ethereum Foundat...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The scandal around sanctioned crypto broker Suex is growing in Russia where one of the co-founders of the OTC platform has been dismissed from his executive post at a bank. Meanwhile, an anti-drug organization has referred the case to the interior mi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The U.S. Treasury Department has blacklisted Suex, a cryptocurrency broker based in Russia, for its money laundering activities. The platform is suspected of processing hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto transactions related to scams, ransomwa...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
The sanctions are part of the government's fight against a spike in criminal activities targeting major companies
The US has moved to sanction the SUEX cryptocurrency exchange over what the authorities say are numerous instances of transactions conne...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
The government agency hinted at possible additional sanctions for "financial institutions, cyber insurance firms, and companies involved in digital forensics and incident response" that f...
Cryptocoins Exchanges / Binance - 2 years ago
I'm currently a permanent resident in Romania (been living here for 8 years), I haven't even stepped foot in Syria in like 9 years. Apparently, I can't use Binance due to section d. of TOS, did anyone experience a similar issue? It's...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
When the United States first began going after crypto companies for violating its economic sanctions rules, it didnt exactly start with a bang.In December, the Treasu...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
Govt agencies want more tools to trace suspect crypto transactions. The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control has requested another subscription to Chainalysis analyti...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Iran is using Bitcoin mining to circumvent and lessen the effect of the economic sanctions that the U.S. and other countries have applied to the country since 2006, according to a new study by Elliptic, a blockchain analytics and financial crime comp...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago
I received notification from a Chinese finance news app. Although Chinese government has been opposing crypto transaction for years, it’s quite vague. The tone of wording this time is quite strong, like punishing on such activities. Before, they only...