On October 22, 2025, the Multilateral Sanctions and Measures Team (MSMT) released its complete “Report Covering DPRK Cyber and IT Worker Activities,” revealing insights into North Korea’s evolving cyber operations. As a key contributor to this initiative, Chainalysis supplied essential blockchain intelligence that helped uncover the size and class of the DPRK’s threats. Below are…
North Korean (DPRK) IT staff proceed to infiltrate IT firms globally to earn earnings, typically in cryptocurrency, used to finance North Korea’s manufacturing of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. Over the previous few years, regulatory actions by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA),…
Federal prosecutors have charged 19-year-old Thalha Jubair, a British nationwide from London, with orchestrating a collection of cyberattacks that extorted greater than $115 million from American corporations and authorities businesses. According to an unsealed complaint in the District of New Jersey, Jubair led the hacker collective referred to as Scattered Spider, which carried out a…
TL;DR OFAC designated Iranian monetary facilitators and their community of entrance firms for coordinating cryptocurrency transactions that profit the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Qods Force (IRGC-QF) and Iran’s Ministry of Defense. The community facilitated over $100 million in cryptocurrency purchases instantly associated to Iranian oil gross sales between 2023 and 2025. The designation highlights Iran’s…
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned 19 entities throughout Myanmar and Cambodia for working large crypto rip-off networks that defrauded Americans of over $10 billion in 2024 alone. The coordinated motion targets transnational felony organizations utilizing compelled labor and human trafficking to perpetrate “pig butchering” scams. The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated 9 targets in…
Nancy Jones, the widow of country music legend George Jones, was allegedly scammed out of $17 million worth of XRP, according to a new report from Nashville media outlet WKRN. George Jones Widow Files Theft Report Over Stolen Crypto The July 25 report states that Jones’ 58-year-old ex-boyfriend, Kirk West, was taken into custody at…
Chainalysis has identified the cryptocurrency payments infrastructure of one of the largest child sexual abuse material (CSAM) website operating on the darkweb. This site has received over $530,000 in crypto payments funneled through more than 5,800 addresses since July 2022, surpassing the scale of the notorious 2017 “Welcome to Video” case previously covered here. A…