Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other sanctioned countries boosted their use of cryptocurrency last year, according to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The illicit on-chain money laundering ecosystem has expanded rapidly over the past five years, growing from roughly $10 billion in ...

Chainalysis has released a report revealing that illegal crypto addresses received a minimum of $154 billion in 2025. These numbers were driven by state-sponsored actors, including DPRK‑linked hackers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The growth in total inflows to crypto addresses linked to human trafficking operations rose 85% in 2025 from the prior year, ...

The Secret Service is working together with U.K. and Canadian law enforcement agencies in a bid to stop crypto fraud schemes.

Illegal activity in the crypto sector is nothing new but, in recent months, it is nation-states that account for a growing share of it. In the last year, there has been a 694% increase in crypto ...

Russia-linked stablecoin A7A5 processed $93 billion while North Korean hacks and Iranian networks expanded illicit flows.

Iran expanded its use of cryptocurrency to move money under sanctions, with more than $3 billion linked to networks tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp ...