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These arrests underscore the growing pattern of law enforcement agencies success in pursuing charges against some cybercrime gangs, says Jamie Hart, cyber threat intelligence analyst for Digital Shadows. Since the beginning of 2021, seeing law enforcement coordinate to take down NetWalker, take down Emotet, and now they have taken down Egregor it shows the cooperation is improving and law enforcement are getting the hang of this, she says.
Officials arrests of several people suspected of ties to the Egregor ransomware-as-a-service operation is the latest success. In January, the US Department of Justice arrested a Canadian national and seized almost $500,000 in cryptocurrency as part of their investigation into the Netwalker ransomware operation. A day earlier, an international alliance of law enforcement agencies shut down the Emotet botnet by taking over the infrastructure its operators used.
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BitPay will have to pay the U.S. Treasury s Office of Foreign Asset Control over half a million dollars for crypto services to sanctioned regions.
In a Feb. 18 announcement of the settlement, OFAC said that BitPay had facilitated approximately $129,000 worth of digital currency-related transactions with BitPay’s merchant customers by users from Crimea, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Sudan and Syria effectively the full range of geographical sanctions that OFAC has in place.
OFAC repeated that crypto firms need to align themselves with sanctions programs, saying: This action emphasizes that OFAC obligations apply to all U.S. persons, including those involved in providing digital currency services.
DUBAI: Among the first steps taken by the new US administration was the reversal of the State Department’s designation of Yemen’s Houthi militia as a foreign terrorist organization.
The argument made by President Joe Biden’s advisers and many aid agencies is that not calling the Houthis (Ansar Allah) “terrorists” would facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into Yemen.
Trouble is, for long the Iran-backed Shiite militia has prevented UN assistance from reaching the needy, regardless of how the US administration chose to label it.
Many see the pleas by the US now to the Houthis to stop behaving like a terrorist organization as too little too late. Goaded by a regime (Tehran) eager to be wooed by the Biden administration, the Houthis likely think they are on a winning streak and therefore should be dialing up the action, not down.