Crypto Crime Now Extends Beyond Cyberspace

[johnblockbuster]

Chainalysis warned that illicit crypto activity is no longer just digital. Chinese money laundering networks have evolved into full-service criminal enterprises, offering laundering-as-a-service and supporting scams, sanctions evasion, and terrorist financing tied to groups like Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.
More alarmingly, investigators are seeing stronger links between on-chain crime and real-world violence, including human trafficking and coercive attacks—raising urgent concerns about global crypto security.

[cryptohog]

on-chain crime bleeding into real-world violence is the part that should make everyone pause