51 lines
2.3 KiB
JSON
51 lines
2.3 KiB
JSON
{
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"namespace": "cryptocurrency-threat",
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"description": "Threats targetting cryptocurrency, based on CipherTrace report.",
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"version": 1,
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"predicates": [
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{
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"value": "SIM Swapping",
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"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."
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},
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{
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"value": "Crypto Dusting",
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"expanded": "A new form of blockchain spam that erodes the recipient's reputation by sending cryptocurrency from known money mixers."
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},
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{
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"value": "Sanction Evasion",
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"expanded": "Nation states using cryptocurrencies has been promoted by the Iranian and Venezuelan governments."
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},
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{
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"value": "Next-Generation Crypto Mixers",
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"expanded": "Money laundering services that promise to exchange tainted tokens for freshly mined crypto, but in reality, cleanse cryptocurrency through exchanges."
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},
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{
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"value": "Shadow Money Service Businesses",
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"expanded": "Unlicensed Money Service Businesses (MSBs) banking cryptocurrency without the knowledge of host financial institutions, and thus exposing banks to unknown risk."
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},
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{
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"value": "Datacenter-Scale Crypto Jacking: ",
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"expanded": "Takeover attacks that mine for cryptocurrency at a massive scale have been discovered in datacenters, including AWS."
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},
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{
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"value": "Lightning Network Transactions",
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"expanded": "Enable anonymous bitcoin transactions by going \"off-chain,\" and cannow scale to $2,150,000."
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},
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{
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"value": "Decentralized Stable Coins",
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"expanded": "Stabilized tokens that can be designed for use as private coins."
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},
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{
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"value": "Email Extortion and Bomb Threats",
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"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."
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},
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{
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"value": "Crypto Robbing Ransomware",
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"expanded": "Cyber-extortionists began distributing new malware that empties cryptocurrency wallets and steals private keys while holding user data hostage."
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}
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],
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"refs": [
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"https://ciphertrace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/crypto_aml_report_2018q4.pdf"
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]
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}
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