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JUNE 19, 2017

With many cybercriminals choosing bitcoin as their currency of choice, the U.S. Of course, from Coinbase’s perspective, allowing those transactions could violate regulations designed to prevent money laundering and criminal activity.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

In other news, blockchain security company CipherTrace revealed details of the first Canadian court case to use a bitcoin expert witness. As a result, the Ontario Attorney General is seeking to confiscate 288 bitcoins. “As The auditing giant used data from the U.S. billion coming from the SamSam attack.

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

From high-profile ransomware attacks and terrorist financing to scams that wiped out millions in savings, global crypto crime has become an urgent concern. Ransomware Hits an All-Time High 2024 also witnessed an unprecedented surge in ransomware attacks globally, with over 5,600 publicly reported cases.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In a report titled “The Dark Side of Latin America,” IntSights, which monitors cyberthreats, said Latin America is among the top regions for money laundering, done at least in part through cryptocurrency, and that such tactics are favored by organized crime.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

In a press conference on Monday (July 15), Mnuchin warned that Libra “could be misused by money launderers and terrorist financiers” and that it was a “national security issue.”. They have a lot of work to do,” he said, according to CNBC.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Elsewhere in the cryptocurrency world, some leading industry players are fighting a federal move to expand anti-money-laundering regulations that have applied to banks handling cash since 1970 to exchanges handling cryptocurrency, Cryptonews and other media outlets report. If the U.S.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Combating Bad Bitcoins. Anti-money laundering and blockchain analysis software developer Chainalysis and Danish electronic payments provider Nets are teaming up to create solutions for Nordic banks that will validate bitcoin transactions and help financial institutions comply with regulations.

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The Fintech Times

JANUARY 12, 2024

The US has become the ninth country to approve a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded-fund (ETF) following the Security and Exchange Commission ‘s (SEC) latest announcement. On 10 January 2024, the US regulator approved the listing and trading of a number of spot bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) shares. ” Hester M.

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Finovate

APRIL 3, 2024

On December 13, 2022, Samuel Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of international cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was charged with two counts of wire fraud conspiracy, two counts of wire fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Since then, cryptocurrencies in general and bitcoin in specific, have been on a tear.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2020

The platform said that “suspicious activity” that its Sentry workforce found and examined in conjunction with Ukraine’s Cyber Police brought about the identification and detention of a purported cybercriminal group behind alleged ransomware activities and laundering of over $42 million in digital currencies during the past two years. “We

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

global ransomware attack; the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank in 2016; the 2014 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment ; and numerous other attacks on the entertainment, financial services, defense, technology, and virtual currency industries, as well as academia and electric utilities. Bitcoin Role.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

Thus, for criminals, at times bitcoin and other cryptos are a conduit to money laundering, ransomware and, at times, just trying to hide in plain sight. In news at the end of this week, the largest child pornography site in the world has been shuttered — and had operated across the Dark Web, funded by bitcoin.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

The ransomware attack affected a range of players, including delivery services like FedEx, automakers including Renault and Nissan, transportation operations such as Germany’s Deutsche Bahn and even medical systems such as the U.K.’s To date, more than $80,000 in bitcoin payments have been made so users could access their files again.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

A few years ago Silicon Valley visionaries were sure that bitcoin was going to transform financial services. On January 21, 2014 Marc Andreessen explained , “why bitcoin has so many Silicon Valley programmers and entrepreneurs lathered up” and compared it to the “Internet in 1993.” Again, it hasn’t worked out.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2017

Discussion topics on the Hill this year ranged from APIs and same-day ACH to bitcoin and banking marijuana sales. People had a lot of questions about “bitcoin,” which Sullivan said many are using as shorthand to refer to distributed ledger technology in general. Clarifying Legality and Enforcement Action Reasoning Act, a.k.a.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

He says that the only people who use $100 bills and £500 notes are drug dealers, money launderers and human traffickers. Reality Check: Bitcoin Is For Criminals. If Professor Rogoff wants to know what’s the currency of the big-time criminal today, it’s not cash, it’s bitcoin. Why bitcoin?

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

The massive wave of crypto-ransomware cyberattacks now reported to have hit more than 200,000 computers in 150 countries shouldn’t be just another “look at how smart and cunning and horrible those cybercriminals are” headline. That means bitcoin. What Does Any of This Have To Do With Bitcoin? Who Is Frances Kelsey?

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Finovate

JANUARY 17, 2024

With apologies to Dr. Dre … the spot Bitcoin ETFs are here and everybody’s celebratin’! This week on Tales from the Crypto we’re taking a look at the launch and reception of the long-awaited spot bitcoin ETFs. Spot Bitcoin ETFs Have Arrived! The new bitcoin ETFs and their ticker symbols are below.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

In this case, they were that, and at the end of that trail, we even found a few bitcoin. The link is a little circuitous since there was a bribery scheme in the mix, wrapped around some good, old-fashioned money laundering, which is, of course, how bitcoin comes into play. In other bitcoin news….

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

And finally, there’s bitcoin, which has seen its use, transacting, trading and popularity fall off of late — except for among one group: criminals. And, speaking of things that may not be the future of financial services… Bitcoin, The Currency Of Digital Crime . But that future won’t be built by bitcoin.

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