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Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Virtual Currency Hackers

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Weekly Blockchain Blog - December 2024 #3

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Digital Asset Companies Achieve Licenses, Launch Stablecoin Products - According to a recent press release, Anchorage Digital, a digital asset platform and infrastructure provider, announced that the New York State...more

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Banks Expand Digital Asset Offerings; Crypto Market Actors Critique SEC Proposal; New OFAC Crypto Sanctions; Agencies Issue...

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This week Anchorage Digital, a digital asset platform and infrastructure provider that is also the first federally chartered cryptocurrency bank, announced that it has added custody support for 11 new digital assets....more

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Ransomware and OFAC Sanctions Compliance

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We have all read about the high-profile malicious cyber-attacks and ransomware demands and payments.  The Colonial Pipeline case demonstrated how responsive law enforcement can be in tracking down perpetrators and recovering...more

Proskauer - Blockchain and the Law

Treasury Department Steps Up Its Counter-Ransomware Efforts and Simultaneously Issues New Sanctions Compliance Guidance for...

Recently, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department, released a report on ransomware trends stating that during the first half of 2021, 68 different ransomware variants...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Update: Ransomware: To Pay or Not to Pay

Three recent events are prompting me to update our previous blog post on the difficult decision of whether to pay or not to pay ransomware following an attack....more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Financial Institutions to Remain Vigilant of Ransomware Attacks as they are Facilitators of Ransomware Payments

On October 1, 2020, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an advisory to alert Financial Institutions (FI) relating to “predominant trends, typologies, and potential indicators of ransomware and associated...more

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OFAC Releases Guidance on Cryptocurrency

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The U.S. government has recently been active with respect to regulating cryptocurrencies. For its part, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently released guidance—issued in the form of...more

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