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Europol Leads International Takedown of Longest Running Darknet Market Archetyp

June 15, 2025

Swedish Law Enforcement Secures First Conviction Under New Terrorism Financing Law

June 14, 2025

From Moscow to Manhattan: How a Crypto Payments Company Allegedly Moved USD 530 Million into the US

June 13, 2025

FBI Special Agent Chris Wong Joins TRM Labs

June 12, 2025

DOJ Seeks Forfeiture of $7.7 Million in Cryptocurrency Tied to North Korean IT Worker Laundering Network

June 5, 2025

Houston Museum Hack Highlights Growing Threat of AI-driven Crypto Scams

June 4, 2025

Product Updates

May 2025 Product Highlights: Leveling Up Blockchain Intelligence Workflows

May 30, 2025

Toward CLARITY: A New Framework for Digital Assets in the US

May 30, 2025

Huione Guarantee and Xinbi Still Operating on Telegram Despite Ban, Underscoring Illicit Actors’ Persistence

May 30, 2025

Introducing TRM’s Regulatory Action Tracker: Stay Updated on Global Enforcement Trends

May 30, 2025

OFAC Sanctions Philippines Entity Including Crypto Addresses For Facilitating Pig Butchering

May 29, 2025

New Drones, Old Tactics: How Iran Is Experimenting With Crypto To Fund Conflict and Evade Sanctions

May 28, 2025

Operation RapTor: The Largest Darknet Takedown in History

May 24, 2025

BREAKING: Federal Judge Overturns All Criminal Convictions in Mango Markets Case Against Avraham Eisenberg

May 23, 2025

The Rise of Wrench Attacks and Crypto-related Violent Crime

May 23, 2025

Mission: Impossible and the Growing Threat of AI-enabled Crime

May 22, 2025

Sextortion, Deepfakes, and the Financial Infrastructure Behind Digital Exploitation

May 21, 2025

EU and UK Crackdown on Russian Hybrid Threat Networks, Military and Energy Supply Chains

May 20, 2025

The Crypto Maturity Model: How Law Enforcement Agencies Are Scaling Blockchain Intelligence

May 20, 2025

DOJ Uses Organized Crime Statute in $263 Million Cryptocurrency Theft, Money Laundering and Home Invasion Conspiracy

May 16, 2025

Key Suspect in $190M Nomad Bridge Exploit Extradited to the United States

May 15, 2025

LockBit Leak Provides Insight into Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) Enterprise

May 14, 2025

Vibe Engineering in the Age of Vibe Coding

May 13, 2025

Thai Police Arrest Five in Major Crypto Laundering Crackdown

May 9, 2025

Product Updates

April 2025 Product Highlights: Accelerating Investigations Across Blockchains

May 8, 2025

AI-enabled Fraud: How Scammers Are Exploiting Generative AI

May 7, 2025

eXch Remains Active Despite Shutdown: How the Bybit Hack-linked Exchange Continues to Enable Laundering of CSAM Funds

May 2, 2025

Treasury Moves Against Huione Group in Landmark Action Targeting Global Cybercrime Infrastructure

May 2, 2025

Grinex Emerges as Likely Garantex Rebrand

April 28, 2025

A Record-Breaking Year for Cybercrime: Key Findings from the FBI’s 2024 IC3 Report

April 24, 2025

In Wake of DOJ Indictment of Iranian Operator of Darknet Market Nemesis, TRM Shares New Data on DNMs

April 24, 2025

From UAVs to Sanctions Evasion: How the Houthis Use Crypto

April 17, 2025

What the First Quarter of MiCA Tells Us About CASP Authorizations

April 15, 2025

US Law Enforcement Dismantles $24M Dark Web Crypto Laundering Network

April 15, 2025

Product Updates

March 2025 Product Highlights: Bridging On-chain Insights and Field Investigations

April 7, 2025

Europol and German Authorities Lead Global Takedown of Darknet Child Exploitation Platform ‘Kidflix’

April 4, 2025

US Treasury Sanctions Houthi Financial Networks Including Eight Crypto Addresses

April 2, 2025

Category deep-dive: Illicit drug sales grew and expanded outside of darknet marketplaces in 2024

March 31, 2025

DOJ Seizes USD 8.2M Tied to Pig Butchering Scheme

March 28, 2025

The Evolving CSAM Landscape: Vendors Increasingly Leveraging AI As They Return to the Dark Web

March 28, 2025

TRM Labs Partners with Canton Network to Strengthen Risk Management on Privacy-enabled Networks

March 27, 2025

Category deep-dive: Scam and fraud volumes declined in 2024, but remain a significant threat

March 25, 2025

Thai Police Arrest German National For Selling CSAM in the Dark Web Based on Tip from HSI

March 21, 2025

Category deep-dive: $2.2 billion was stolen in crypto-related hacks in 2024

March 18, 2025

Category deep-dive: Ransomware demands reached an all-time high in 2024

March 14, 2025

TRM Labs and Magnet Forensics Join Forces to Merge Digital Forensics and Blockchain Intelligence

March 14, 2025

TRM Talks: A Big Week on the Road to Legal Clarity with Uniswap Chief Legal Officer Katherine Minarik

March 12, 2025

UK’s First Crypto ATM Conviction: FCA Secures 4-Year Sentence Against Unlicensed Operator

March 12, 2025

Enhancing Law Enforcement’s Role in Expanding the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve

March 11, 2025

The Takedown of Garantex: A Notorious Crypto Exchange’s Role in Illicit Finance

March 6, 2025

Category deep-dive: Use of crypto in terrorist financing expanded in 2024

March 6, 2025

US Treasury Sanctions Iranian National for Operating Darknet Market Nemesis

March 4, 2025

Bybit Hack Update: North Korea Moves to Next Stage of Laundering

March 4, 2025

Product Updates

February 2025 Product Highlights: Enhancing Investigations Across Blockchains

March 3, 2025

Recap: Quarterly Crypto Policy Roundtable, Q1 2025

March 3, 2025

U.S. Authorities Seize $31 Million Related to Uranium Finance Hack

February 28, 2025

The Bybit Hack: Following North Korea’s Largest Exploit

February 27, 2025

TRM Talks: Deepfakes and the Rise of AI-Enabled Crime with Hany Farid

February 26, 2025

Category deep-dive: Sanctioned entities continued to drive illicit crypto volume in 2024

February 26, 2025

TRM Labs Expands Wallet Screening Solution to Combat $11 Billion Crypto Fraud Epidemic

February 25, 2025

EU Includes Crypto Exchange Garantex in 16th Sanctions Package on Russia

February 24, 2025

TRM Links North Korea to Record $1.5 Billion Record Hack

February 21, 2025

Global Law Enfocement Agencies Dismantle Cybercrime Services Cracked and Nulled

February 19, 2025

Blockchain Intelligence and Border Security

February 19, 2025

Category deep-dive: Overall 2024 figures and declining illicit crypto volume on TRON

February 18, 2025

The $LIBRA Affair: Tracking the Memecoin That Launched a Scandal in Argentina

February 17, 2025

TRM Labs Announces Comprehensive Blockchain Intelligence Coverage for TON

February 13, 2025

Webinar Recap: The Journey to a Crypto License in Singapore

February 12, 2025

TRM Talks: New Frontiers in Finance — A Journey from State Banking Supervisor to Compliance Leader with Two Ocean Trust's Albert Forkner

February 12, 2025

CFTC Secures $128 Million Judgment Against Crypto and Forex Fraudsters

February 12, 2025

US, UK and Australia Target Zservers and LockBit Affiliates

February 11, 2025

TRM Labs Brings Best In Class Blockchain Intelligence to Developers Building on Unichain

February 11, 2025

Now Live: The 2025 Crypto Crime Report

February 10, 2025

Canadian National Charged With Stealing $65 Million in Crypto From Two DeFi Protocols

February 7, 2025

TRM Labs and Predicate Join Forces to Launch the First Decentralized Policy Infrastructure for Blockchain Applications

February 4, 2025

A Blueprint for the Trump Administration’s First 100 Days in Crypto Policy: Mitigating Illicit Finance While Driving Innovation

February 3, 2025

‍Crypto ‘Godfather’ and LASD Detective Agree to Plead Guilty to Violating Civil Rights of Business Rivals and Tax Crimes

January 31, 2025

From BigQuery to Lakehouse: How We Built a Petabyte-Scale Data Analytics Platform – Part 1

January 30, 2025

The Rise of AI-Enabled Crime: Exploring the evolution, risks, and responses to AI-powered criminal enterprises

January 30, 2025

T3 Financial Crime Unit, Spanish Authorities Freeze $26.4M in Crypto Scheme

January 29, 2025

TRM Talks: Former Treasury Official and Circle's Caroline Hill Talks Stablecoin Compliance, Policy and Regulation

January 29, 2025

Spain’s Guardia Civil, in Coordination With T3, Disrupts Criminal Enterprise

January 28, 2025

Unpacking Trump's Executive Order on Digital Financial Technology

January 24, 2025

Understanding the Use of Cryptocurrencies By Cartels

January 22, 2025

Tracing $TRUMP: The Latest Memecoin on Solana

January 21, 2025

Crypto Investment Firm Founder Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Thousands of Investors of Over $9M in Ponzi Scheme

January 16, 2025

Report Teaser: Proportion of Illicit Volume of Crypto Dropped 51% in 2024

January 15, 2025

TRM Talks: Future Money: How Crypto, AI, and the Technology Revolution are Changing Finance with Citi Institute's Ronit Ghose

January 15, 2025

Recap: Quarterly Crypto Policy Roundtable, Q4 2024

January 13, 2025

Roundtable Recap: How to Leverage Blockchains for Good, Part 2

January 10, 2025

Squid Game Season 2: A Window Into Popular Culture and Crypto Scams

January 9, 2025

How Blockchain Intelligence Delivers a 10,000% ROI for Government Agencies

January 8, 2025

T3 Financial Crime Unit Marks Enforcement Victory: $100 Million in Criminal Assets Frozen Across Five Continents

January 2, 2025

TRM Talks: How the US Treasury Combats Illicit Finance in the Cryptoverse with Caroline Horres

January 1, 2025

Virginia Man Convicted for Crypto Financing Scheme to ISIS

December 20, 2024

2024 TRM Wrapped: Recapping This Year's Highlights

December 20, 2024

Treasury Sanctions Houthi Financial Facilitators and Five Cryptocurrency Addresses

December 19, 2024

TRM Talks: TradFi to DeFi — How Standard Chartered is Building the Bridge to the Future of Finance with René Michau and Esme Hodson

December 18, 2024

‍California DFPI Releases Comprehensive Data on Crypto ATMs; TRM Analyzes the Data

December 17, 2024

TRM Labs Achieves FedRAMP® High Authorization, Strengthening Federal Offerings

December 17, 2024

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