Catching up on the Week 43 in Blockchain Threat Intelligence, this newsletter features updates on the Crypto Capital saga and its involvement with drug cartel money laundering, side-channel attacks on the privacy coins, and awesome research articles on FumbleChain wargame, eclipse attack against Ethereum, and others.
Crime
Crypto Capital Official Nabbed in Money Laundering Probe - arrest and extradition of Ivan Manuel Molina Lee to Poland to face money laundering charges for a Columbian drug cartel. Bitfinex issued a statement about its involvement as only a victim of a fraud. The arrest continues the saga of the missing $850 million from the Tether fund controlled by Crypto Capital.
Russian man sent to prison for mining bitcoin at top secret facility that made nuclear bombs - sentencing of a Russian scientist for mining bitcoin at Sarov lab on recently installed supercomputer.
Vulnerabilities
Linking Anonymous Transactions via Remote Side-Channel Attacks - report on a patched side-channel…
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