2 days ago

U.S. sanctions 6 people, 2 companies that laundered $800 million in crypto for N...

The Treasury Department said North Korea infiltrated IT workers into U.S. businesses and channeled their wages back to the country...

3 days ago

Binance Faces Fresh DOJ Scrutiny Over Iran-Linked Transfers

TLDR: DOJ examines Binance transactions linked to Iran-backed networks exceeding $1 billion.  Binance denies knowingly transacting...

1 week ago

Sanctions evasions using crypto increased by 700% in 2025: Chainalysis

Russia, Iran and North Korea expanded their use of stablecoins, hacked funds and state-linked exchanges to move more than $100 bil...

Feb 24, 2026

Crypto’s biggest exchange fights back against allegations of moving billions of...

The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and Fortune all reported that investigators had been let go after identifying sanction...

Feb 24, 2026

Millions in crypto funded tools to exploit U.S. software, Treasury says in new s...

An Australian national was said to sell cyber tools designed for the U.S. government and its allies to a Russian company known as...

Feb 23, 2026

Elliptic flags Russia-linked crypto platforms’ ongoing sanctions evasion

Bitpapa, Garantex and ABCeX were among the cryptocurrency exchanges linked to Russian-tied transactions circumventing Western evas...

Jan 31, 2026

U.S. imposes sanctions on crypto exchanges tied to Iran for the first time

The exchanges were accused of facilitating transactions for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and are linked to an Iranian bus...

Jan 28, 2026

Criminal use of crypto spikes after years of steady decline, TRM report says

While the increasingly professional bad guys' crypto rocketed to $158 billion in 2025, it's still a decreasing share of overall di...

Jan 25, 2026

Russia’s Gold Reserve Depletion Signals Mid-2026 Financial Crisis as War Costs S...

TLDR: Russia’s National Wealth Fund has contracted from $113 billion to $50 billion, with liquid reserves projected to deplete by...