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Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last…

By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday. Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, many connected to over-the-counter brokers, received $1.3 billion in illicit digital coins last year […]

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A timeline of the biggest ransomware attacks

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id=»article-body» class=»row» section=»article-body» data-component=»trackCWV»> The history of technology is riddled with unintended consequences. As William Gibson wrote in Burning Chrome, «…the street finds its own uses for things.» Though Bitcoin may not have been originally conceived as a medium for ransom payments, it’s quickly become a central tool for online criminals. Ransomware, a category of

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One of the biggest ever dark web police stings leads to 150 arrests

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Police around the world have arrested 150 suspects in one of the largest-ever dark web sting operations. The suspects arrested included several high-profile targets, involved in buying or selling illegal goods online, Europol said today. Operation Dark HunTOR also recovered millions of pounds in cash and , as well as drugs and guns. The bust

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One-third of the people reading this are thieves

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id=»article-body» class=»row» section=»article-body» data-component=»trackCWV»> At least, that’s what a . Why? Because 36.4% of the 1.66 million computers survey had LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) program installed. Guilty by association? I have LimeWire installed on my Mac. This doesn’t make me a thief. In fact, I’ve bought a wide range of music through iTunes over

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Chinese crypto addresses sent $2.2 bln to scams, darknets in…

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By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Chinese cryptocurrency addresses sent more than $2.2 billion worth of digital tokens to addresses tied to illegal activity such as scams and darknet market operations between April 2019 and dark markets June 2021, according to a report from blockchain data platform Chainalysis released on Tuesday. These

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Darknet crypto kingpin JokerStash retires after illicit $1 billion…

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By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The kingpin or kingpins of the world’s biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters. The «Joker’s Stash» marketplace, where stolen credit cards and identity data

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Chinese crypto addresses sent $2.2 bln to scams, darknets in…

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By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Chinese cryptocurrency addresses sent more than $2.2 billion worth of digital tokens to addresses tied to illegal activity such as scams and darknet market operations between April 2019 and June 2021, according to a report from blockchain data platform Chainalysis released on Tuesday. These addresses received

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Global Drug Survey reveals alcohol and drug habits during pandemic

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Australians are officially the world’s biggest binge drinkers, but Britain and the US don’t lag far behind – featuring in the top five of the latest Global Drug Survey. Denmark and Finland ranked at second and third in the survey of more than 32,000 people from 22 countries which collected data from December 2020 to

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Police bust one of the world's largest child pornography rings

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German prosecutors say they have busted one of the world’s biggest international darknet market platforms for child pornography, used by more than 400,000 registered members, including from the US, Australia and . Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement together with the Federal Criminal Police Office that in mid-April three German suspects, said to be the

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One of the biggest ever dark web police stings leads to 150 arrests

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Police around the world have arrested 150 suspects in one of the largest-ever dark web sting operations. The suspects arrested included several high-profile targets, involved in buying or selling illegal goods online, darknet market magazine Europol said today. Operation Dark HunTOR also recovered millions of pounds in cash and , as well as drugs and

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