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Court Urges YouTuber Banned From Roblox To Stop Making Terrorist Threats

21.1.2022
Controversial YouTuber Benjamin “Ruben Sim” Simon has been banned from gaming platform Roblox after allegedly leading an in-game “cybermob” to harass its predominantly younger player base with racist and homophobic slurs, and some sexual harassment to boot. According to the Oakland, CA court that...

Biggest Bank in Venezuela Suffers 5 Day Outage After Hack Attempt

21.9.2021
The Bank of Venezuela, one of the biggest state banks in the country, is now experiencing an outage that has left its customers without services for five days. The bank published a PR statement stating this was the result of a “terrorist attack” on the national financial system, being...

Seychelles Examines the Pros and Cons of Licensing Crypto Trading Platforms

10.9.2021
Seychelles’ Financial Services Authority (FSA) together with the country’s finance ministry, is reportedly working on a policy to either prohibit or license crypto trading platforms as registered international businesses. Increase in International Investigations of Crypto Platforms...

Israel Begins Seizure of Bitcoin Donations Collected by Hamas

10.7.2021
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz has ordered the seizure of cryptocurrency funds raised by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. His department has reportedly started taking control over digital wallets used by the terrorist group to collect crypto donations from abroad. Defense...

A Four-Year-Old Muslim Boy Was Reported To Terrorist Watchdog For Talking About Fortnite

1.2.2021
The Guardian reports that the British government’s Prevent system, a community terrorism watchdog brimming with baked-in racism, once received a tip about a four-year-old boy who was overheard talking about Fortnite, which resulted in police turning up at the family’s home.Read more

Janet Yellen Says Cryptocurrencies Are a ‘Concern’ in Terrorist Financing

19.1.2021
The U.S. should examine how it can curtail the use of crypto for illicit financing, the former Fed Chair said

Crypto anti-terrorism bill introduced in the US House of Representatives

15.1.2021
A bipartisan group of representatives has introduced a bill to the House that seeks to create a task force focused on combating terrorist financing via cryptocurrencies

French Authorities Arrest 29 Suspected of Using Crypto to Fund Extremists in Syria

30.9.2020
Hundreds of thousands of euros may have been supplied through a secret network benefiting al-Qaida-linked extremists in northwestern Syria

U.S. Democrats Ask Trump Administration for Details on Terrorist Crypto Seizures

26.8.2020
Two U.S. Democrats have asked the White House to provide more information on recent seizures of cryptocurrency from terrorist groups including ISIS

Blockchain Bites: Trump on Bitcoin, Powell on Digital Dollars and the Truth About Terrorist Financing

18.6.2020
Who watches the watchdogs? President Trump reportedly told his Treasury Secretary to go after Bitcoin while the DEA failed to properly oversee crypto investigations

Encryption Standards Threatened Under Pretext of Battling Coronavirus

22.3.2020
Governments around the world have been trying for some time to bypass encryption and backdoor messaging apps. End-to-end encryption was preventing authorities from stopping terrorist attacks, we were told, and personal privacy had to be sacrificed for the greater good. Now, as the coronavirus...

US Woman Gets 13 Years in Jail After Funding ISIS With Cryptocurrency

16.3.2020
The woman fraudulently obtained credit card numbers in order to buy $62,000 in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

Palestinian Militant Group Has Received 3,370 Bitcoins in Donations Since 2015: Report

20.1.2020
The report from an Israeli organisation claims the group used bitcoin to avoid sanctions, offer a degree of anonymity to donors and enable cross-border money transfers

NJ Counterterrorism Chief Warns US Congress: Crypto Is Funding ‘Domestic Extremism’

15.1.2020
New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness Director Jared Maples predicted Wednesday that domestic terrorists will increasingly turn to bitcoin

Bad for Business: How KYC/AML Makes Everyone a ‘Terrorist’

22.10.2019
Two reports from risk solutions group Lexisnexis assert that anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) policies can negatively affect a business’s bottom line and customer service significantly. A recent trip to the local post office for a money order certainly had a negative...

CipherTrace’s Blockchain Forensics Service Now Covers 700 Crypto Assets

15.10.2019
The blockchain analytics provider now offers a window into the data of more than 87 percent of the top 100 cryptocurrencies

Terrorist Groups Like Hamas Counting on Telegram For Raising Cryptocurrency: Report

30.8.2019
As per the latest report by MEMRI, short for Middle East Media Research Institute which is based in Washington DC, multiple infamous terrorist groups, such as Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Muslim Brotherhood, and the Hamas, are banking on Telegram, as well as other social media channels, for raising digital...