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Anti-money laundering related policies and regulations

Statistics from CoinHolmes, a digital asset anti-money laundering and anti-fraud situation awareness platform under PeckShield, found that my country will continue to increase anti-money laundering supervision in the beginning of 2021, and global regulators will jointly crack down on virtual assets related to gangsters and terrorism.

On January 8, the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) published a policy letter. In the instructions, the OCC clearly stated that the federal banks and savings institutions of the United States can participate in becoming nodes of INVN and use stable coins as a means of payment. Since the US dollar CBDC will not be launched in recent years, my country’s digital renminbi is accelerating. In order to stabilize the US dollar’s ​​position in the digital field, the United States encourages the expansion of US dollar stable coins, which also brings greater challenges and opportunities to the US banking industry. .

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Cases related to virtual assets

In the beginning of 2021, my country's public security departments will continue to crack down on cases of "capital trading" and "exchange running away" related to virtual currencies, and actively carry out investigations, traceability, freezing cards and other actions, which have achieved considerable results. On the international front, the value of DeFi lockups has repeatedly hit new highs, and phishing websites have spread to the DeFi field.

On January 13, relevant personnel of the exchange IDAX who ran away at the end of 2019 were prosecuted for alleged fraud. It is reported that in June 2019, IDAX launched its platform currency IT currency lock-up commission rebate activity, which lured the public to buy IT currency and then transfer it to the foundation to lock the warehouse and cannot withdraw cash. After auditing, the amount involved was equivalent to more than RMB 237 million.

On January 13, trading platform IQ Option was hit with a class action lawsuit in India, accused of being a cryptocurrency scam that promised up to 900% return on investment to lure investors. The Delhi court has ordered notices to be published in major newspapers inviting victims to come forward.

On January 15, the DeFi insurance agreement Nexus Mutual officially tweeted that a fraudulent email about the NXM token upgrade is circulating on the Internet. Nexus Mutual has no upgrade plan, and users are requested not to follow the email.

Indian police seized 90 million rupees ($1.23 million) worth of bitcoin from an arrested hacker on Jan. 15. The hacker was arrested on November 18, 2020, for hacking a government website. During the investigation, the police found that the hacker had also hacked into 3 bitcoin exchanges and 10 poker websites, stealing more than 30 bitcoins.

On January 15, J Capital Research, a US short-selling agency, sold short-selling shares of Bit Digital (BTBT.US). According to JCAP, BitDigital illegally raised US$42 million through its P2P business. In addition, the company's announcement that it invested $18.8 million in mining operations was a scam, and the purported seller of bitcoin mining machines denied having a deal with it; It is a scam, and XMAX's cryptocurrency business has ceased operations since May last year.

Twitter cryptocurrency giveaway scams impersonating Tesla CEO Elon Musk's profile have increased, with more than $580,000 in cash, according to a report from Bleeping Computer on Jan. 15. bitcoin.

On January 18, the Public Security Bureau of Wusheng County, Sichuan Province stated that the trading of QT and other virtual currencies on the QBTC APP platform was suspected of fraud. The investigation ended on December 10, 2020. It has been handed over to the Wusheng County People’s Procuratorate for review and prosecution. The request for currency withdrawal has to wait Court decision.

On January 20, in the special operation "Clean Net 2020", the Public Security Bureau of Danyang City, Jiangsu Province cracked a criminal case of using "virtual currency to receive and pay" and arrested 30 suspects involved in the case. After investigation, the criminal suspects sold more than 600 million pieces of citizens' personal information, with illegal income of more than 8 million yuan.

On January 25, the DeFi protocol Cover Protocol officially tweeted to remind users to be wary of fraudulent websites.

On January 25th, DFINITY officially reminded community members to be wary of the fake airdrop website dfini.org.

According to news on January 28, previously, a Twitter opinion leader whose ID account was WSB Chairman posted information about Bitcoin and Dogecoin, causing Dogecoin to soar by more than 80%. After verification, the account is not the account of the official opinion leader of the popular Reddit sub-section WallStreetBets, and the messages sent do not constitute any investment advice.

On January 28, Europol, in cooperation with the Spanish National Guard and the Catalan police, cracked a crypto investment training fraud case. Officials have arrested six suspects and seized fiat and virtual currencies totaling approximately 70,000 euros (approximately $84,716).

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OTC Transaction Surprised "Speed ​​Robbery"

within half a month,Two huge virtual currency over-the-counter transactions were robbed in Hong Kong。

On January 4th, a man in Chai Wan, Hong Kong met a South Asian buyer when he was in the middle of delivering bitcoins. He was robbed of 3 million Hong Kong dollars and 2 mobile phones on the street. It is reported that he successfully cashed out 1 million Hong Kong dollars in the first transaction.

On January 18, the police received a report that a woman was robbed of RMB 3.5 million in cash by four men armed with knives and sticks when she was in the Huaji Center unit at No. 36 Chuangye Street, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong. Hong Kong dollar.

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Ransomware continues to be high, terrorist financing spreads to the field of digital currency

According to PeckShield's previously released "2020 Annual Digital Currency Anti-Money Laundering Report" shows that in 2020, blackmail attacks will develop rapidly, and the rate of return of attacks by blackmailers after using virtual currency to collect money has increased significantly, which has attracted close attention from domestic and foreign regulators. At the beginning of 2021, extortion attacks continued to ferment, and the global regulatory joint crackdown began to show results.

On January 8, a website owner received an email threatening to post a 5-star review on coinmama.com and to like or share it twice. If the recipient doesn't complete the above request within 48 hours, the blackmailer will create millions of backlinks from the porn site to the recipient's website, ruining their reputation.

On January 22, a hacker stole the data of about 2 million users of the adult streaming website MyFreeCams. By selling the data, 49 transactions were made, accumulatively obtaining $22,400 worth of bitcoins.

On January 23, five customers of Radware were attacked by DDoS, and hackers demanded a ransom of 5 BTC.

On January 29, 2021 began, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Bulgaria compromised the infrastructure of NetWalker, one of the most active ransomware gangs in 2020, a Canadian citizen (member) said in indictment by U.S. officials that he At least $27.6 million in ransom has been collected from companies infected with NetWalker ransomware.

With the opening up of the virtual world and the physical world, and the popularization of new technologies such as blockchain, petty thieves and black property are no longer the main threat, and advanced persistent hijacking threats launched by organized and premeditated state-level opponents , cybercriminal organizations, and cyberterrorism will become the biggest security threats.

On January 20, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was investigating "capitol riot"In the incident, it was discovered that a Frenchman had transferred a sum of $500,000 worth of bitcoin to some key figures in the far-right movement involved in the "Capitol Hill Riot" one month before the riot (December 8, 2020) .