"description":"Threats targetting cryptocurrency, based on CipherTrace report.",
"version":1,
"predicates":[
{
"value":"SIM Swapping",
"expanded":"An identity theft technique that takes over a victim's mobile device to steal credentials and break into wallets or exchange accounts to steal cryptocurrency."
},
{
"value":"Crypto Dusting",
"expanded":"A new form of blockchain spam that erodes the recipient's reputation by sending cryptocurrency from known money mixers."
},
{
"value":"Sanction Evasion",
"expanded":"Nation states using cryptocurrencies has been promoted by the Iranian and Venezuelan governments."
},
{
"value":"Next-Generation Crypto Mixers",
"expanded":"Money laundering services that promise to exchange tainted tokens for freshly mined crypto, but in reality, cleanse cryptocurrency through exchanges."
},
{
"value":"Shadow Money Service Businesses",
"expanded":"Unlicensed Money Service Businesses (MSBs) banking cryptocurrency without the knowledge of host financial institutions, and thus exposing banks to unknown risk."
},
{
"value":"Datacenter-Scale Crypto Jacking: ",
"expanded":"Takeover attacks that mine for cryptocurrency at a massive scale have been discovered in datacenters, including AWS."
},
{
"value":"Lightning Network Transactions",
"expanded":"Enable anonymous bitcoin transactions by going \"off-chain,\" and cannow scale to $2,150,000."
},
{
"value":"Decentralized Stable Coins",
"expanded":"Stabilized tokens that can be designed for use as private coins."
},
{
"value":"Email Extortion and Bomb Threats",
"expanded":"Cyber-extortionists stepped up mass-customized phishing emails campaigns using old passwords and spouse names in 2018. Bomb threat extortion scams demanding bitcoin spiked in December."
},
{
"value":"Crypto Robbing Ransomware",
"expanded":"Cyber-extortionists began distributing new malware that empties cryptocurrency wallets and steals private keys while holding user data hostage."
