The U.S. Department of the Treasury has blacklisted Russia-based cryptocurrency exchange Suex for allegedly laundering tens of millions of dollars for ransomware operators, scammers and darknet markets. It is the first such designation for a virtual currency exchange and part of the Biden administration’s efforts to undermine ransomware’s financial infrastructure. The department will now add […]
Bitcoin miners and investors will not be regulated by the US Treasury. The clarification came in a pair of rulings yesterday from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the US Treasury Department, which said that people who mine virtual currencies for personal use and businesses that buy and sell virtual currencies purely […]
An interesting malware attack showed up in two of my honeypots one morning this week. I then received a third copy from a co-worker later that morning, so I did a little research to gather enough data for a blog post. The e-mails are interesting, since they purport to be simple bills or invoices (“pending […]
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