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UK Sanctions Xinbi to Isolate It From the Legitimate Crypto Ecosystem

The UK government is cracking down on a $20 billion Chinese-language crypto guarantee marketplace, with sweeping sanctions aimed at cutting the platform off from...

US Stocks Under Pressure as S&P 500 Breaks Key Level Despite Iran Oil Sanctions Relief

U.S. stocks closed sharply lower Friday as war-driven energy costs and shifting rate expectations forced investors to rethink risk. S&P 500 Hits 2025 Low...

US Treasury Sanctions Alleged $800 Million North Korean IT Worker Fraud Operation

The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned six individuals and two entities linked to a North Korean government scheme, which it alleged used fraudulent...

U.S. sanctions network that allegedly laundered $800 million in crypto for North Korea

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on six individuals and two companies it says helped North Korea convert $800 million in 2024 into crypto...

Crypto sanctions evasion surged in 2025 as states moved $104 billion: Chainalysis

Sanctions evasion dominated crypto-related illicit finance last year, with state actors including Russia, Iran and North Korea driving a surge in activity, Chainalysis said...

Iran is using a $7.8 billion crypto shadow economy to bypass global sanctions

Fresh U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have drawn new attention to a financial network Tehran has built in parallel to its battered banking...

US Senator Probes Binance Over Alleged Iran, Russia Sanctions Breaches

A senior US lawmaker launched a congressional inquiry into crypto exchange Binance following reports that the platform processed about $1.7 billion in transactions tied...

Treasury Sanctions Russian ‘Exploit’ Broker Over Stolen US Cyber Tools

In brief Treasury sanctions alleged Sergey Sergeyevich Zelenyuk and Operation Zero operated as a Russian exploit broker network. According to Regulators, the sanctions are the first...

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Russian Exploit Broker Over Crypto Cyber Theft

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned a Russian exploit brokerage network accused of purchasing stolen U.S. government cyber tools with...

Binance CEO Hints at Legal Action over Report on Iranian Sanctions

Binance CEO Richard Teng took to social media on Tuesday to attack what he called “inaccurate reporting” by the Wall Street Journal regarding investigators...

Millions in crypto funded tools to exploit U.S. software, Treasury says in new sanctions

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a Russian company, Operation Zero, and the individuals behind it after accusing them of buying stolen cyber tools...

Elliptic flags Russia-linked crypto exchanges over sanctions exposure risks

Several Russian-linked crypto exchanges continue to allow transactions linked to sanctioned entities, according to a report published Friday by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.The report...