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FinCEN Links More Than $5 Billion in Bitcoin Transactions to Ransomware

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FinCEN, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, linked more than $5 billion in bitcoin transactions to the most common ransomware variants out there. The organization stated in a report issued last week that the mean average total monthly suspicious amount of…

Avalanche Defi Platform Vee Finance Attacked — $35 Million in ETH, BTC Siphoned

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On September 21, 2021, an Avalanche-based decentralized finance (defi) platform Vee Finance announced that it suffered from an incident that siphoned 8,804 ether and 213 bitcoin out of the system. The team has suspended the defi platform contracts and stressed that…