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Mastercard’s blockchain forensic firm CipherTrace has reportedly halted some of its key services amid concerns over data reliability. CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics firm acquired by Mastercard in 2021, appears to be discontinuing some of its key services, Fortune has learned,…

Mastercard has teamed up with Feedzai to alert about suspicious crypto transactions in real time. Payments giant Mastercard has entered into a partnership with Feedzai, an artificial intelligence (AI) powered risk management system, in a bid to increase crypto fraud…

With the growing use of crypto in Ukraine, there is a 'pressing need' for effective investigations, OSCE officials say.

Mastercard is set to launch a new crypto service linked to risk management. The new service aims to assist banks in detecting and preventing fraud on cryptocurrency merchant platforms. Mastercard to Launch Crypto Fraud Protection Tool Mastercard plans to introduce…

A report by cryptocurrency intelligence company, CipherTrace, shows that there has been a significant drop in the percentage of illicit crypto transactions in the last 12 months. Crypto Grows Over Illicit Activities According to the report, the crypto space witnessed…

The DeFi summer of 2020 witnessed ‘rug-pulls’ left, right, and center. DeFi Landscape Saw Major Crypto Thefts Blockchain technology and cryptocurrency analysis firm CipherTrace recently released the 2020 Cryptocurrency Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Report. The report posits that while 2019…

CipherTrace has filed two patent applications for its Monero transaction tracking system. The firm claims the solution is designed to bring more transparency to Monero and make it harder for bad actors to use the privacy-centric altcoin for their illicit…

While crypto heists have declined in 2020, the largely unregulated decentralized finance (DeFi) arena has seen an uptick in the activities of rogue actors. Crypto Crime on the Decline in 2020 According to cryptocurrency forensics firm CipherTrace, losses due to…

Documents this week showed billion-dollar crypto firms, the likes of ConsenSys, CipherTrace, Bittrex, and Tron, applied for public loans in the U.S. to protect against capital erosion. However, critics aren’t pleased. The Anti-Government Government Club Over 75 companies in the…

Per a press release on Business Wire on October 15, 2019, cryptocurrency and blockchain security company, CipherTrace, recently launched a platform that would trace the transactions of over 700 crypto tokens. The expanded platform helps investors, law enforcement agencies, and…

According to a press release published February 19, 2019, blockchain security firm CipherTrace has secured $15 million in venture capital from leading Silicon Valley and New York venture capital firms with a proven track record in the crypto asset and…

De Nederlandsche, the Dutch central bank, is keen to regulate cryptocurrency companies to deter money laundering and terrorist financing. According to December 11, 2018, reports from Dutch Daily newspaper, De Telegraaf, cryptocurrency companies may require a license to continue operating…

According to a study by cryptocurrency security firm CipherTrace of online heists, a record number of cryptocurrency tokens were stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges in the first half of 2018 alone. Cryptocurrency Heists on the Rise in 2018 CipherTrace reported that in…