The US Treasury's OFAC sanctions individuals and companies linked to North Korea's fake tech worker scheme, including “malicious cyber actor” Song Kum Hyok
The US slapped sanctions on individuals and companies linked to a scheme that involves recruiting North Koreans to pose …
Sources: hackers intercepted ~100 bank regulators' emails, 150K+ in total, for over a year at the US Treasury's OCC, which disclosed a breach on February 26
- Attackers lurked within OCC email accounts since 2023 — Chinese state hackers previously targeted Treasury files
The US Treasury's sanctions watchdog removes Tornado Cash from its global blacklist, after a federal appeals court ruled against the sanctions in November 2024
The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions watchdog removed Tornado Cash from its global blacklist Friday.
DOGE's Tom Krause, the US Treasury's new Fiscal Assistant Secretary, is still the CEO of Cloud Software Group; critics say it may be a conflict of interest
“...bosses are simultaneously running private companies while also running parts of the government that affect their businesses.” — By @telliotter.bsky.social Tim Marchman / @timmarchman : GRINDSET/...
Tether freezes the wallets of people sanctioned by the US Treasury's OFAC to stop “potential misuse” of its tokens, one of its new CEO's first significant moves
- Tether has frozen its coins held in crypto wallets sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Controls, the company announced today.
The US Treasury's FinCEN proposes labeling international crypto mixing as a “primary money laundering concern”, citing its use by Hamas and other illicit actors
Under pressure to address reports that Hamas and other terrorist groups are partially funded with crypto …
The US Treasury's FinCEN unit labels crypto exchange Bitzlato as a “money laundering concern” related to Russian illicit finance; French police seize Bitzlato
wherever they are. https://www.reuters.com/... Jameson Lopp / @lopp : Nobody knows what Bitzlato was because criminal activity is (estimated to be) less than 1% of crypto transaction volume. @fbi : An...
The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control adds a designation to Tornado Cash that ties the crypto mixer to North Korea's nuclear weapons program
Kollen Post / The Block :
By Oct. 14, 51% of the blocks produced for Ethereum's blockchain adhered to the US Treasury's OFAC compliance recommendations that ban Tornado Cash transactions
Censorship has been a growing concern within the Ethereum ecosystem, especially since the advent of MEV-Boost after the Merge.