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International crime-fighting agency Europol has praised blockchain’s security, but also highlighted high criminal activity in decentralized finance. Europol, the EU law enforcement organization, has published its first European Financial and Economic CrimeThreat Assessment. It describes an in-depth assessment of the…
The U.S., Germany and Europol have taken down the infrastructure behind ChipMixer, a platform commonly used by darknet criminals to launder cryptos.
Six people have been arrested in the UK and Netherlands for running a phishing scheme that targeted cryptocurrency users through a method called typosquatting. In a press release issued June 25, 2019, Europol revealed the arrests were made based on…
The law enforcement agency of the European Union, Europol, revealed at a recent cryptocurrency conference that it was developing a cryptocurrency game that would train law enforcement agencies on how to trace and investigate virtual currency-related crimes. According to a press…
Europol has announced the arrest of eight individuals in Spain who allegedly have ties to a criminal organization that is involved in cryptocurrency laundering services, May 08, 2019 $10 Million Credit Received in Cold and Hot Wallets It seems as…
In a major operation to uncover dark web business, the German Federal Criminal Police pulled down the shutters of the largest dark web market, the Wall Street Market. In a similar operation earlier this year, Finnish Customs and the French…