North Korea’s $6.3B Binance Hack Takes a Strange Turn With Meme Coins
North Korean launderers have turned to disposable meme coins to disguise proceeds from Binance’s roughly $6.3 billion hack. Elliptic identified related tactics on three blockchains, adding cheap, repeatable obstacles to...
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