Treasury Department sanctions entities tied to North Korean IT scams, hacking
North Korea's use of malicious cyber activity to evade international sanctions has become a growing problem for U.S. national security.
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Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Report: Illicit cryptocurrency activity reached all-time high in 2022
A sharp increase in crypto-currency related sanctions resulted in far more crypto transactions being considered illicit.
Treasury fines virtual currency exchange Bittrex for failing to catch ransomware payments
The virtual currency exchange based in Washington state failed to catch more than 100,000 transactions from sanctioned regions.
Treasury updates Lazarus Group sanctions with digital currency address linked to Ronin Bridge hack
The address received $600 million in Ethereum and other digital currency during the March attack, crypto-tracking company Chainalysis said.
US government sanctions more Ukrainians tied to Biden family smear
It's an offensive against affiliates of Andrii Derkach, a member of Ukraine's parliament and a suspected Russian agent.
US advisory meant to clarify ransomware payments only spotlights widespread uncertainty
Some worry that OFAC didn't anticipate a bilzzard of potential unindented consequences.
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Takedown of 92 Iran-owned domains includes 4 used for disinformation in US, feds say
The Department of Justice said the four domains targeted at U.S. audiences — newsstand7.com, usjournal.net, usjournal.us and twtoday.net — were seized specifically under the Foreign Agents Registration…
Cloudflare may have provided service to terrorists, drug traffickers in violation of U.S. sanctions
The update to Cloudflare's regulatory filing comes just before the company's IPO on Sept. 13.