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The Tether freeze coalition known as T3 FCU has surpassed $450 million in blocked illicit USDT since launching in 2024. Summary T3 FCU, backed by Tether, TRON, and TRM Labs, intercepted 43.9% more illicit proceeds in 2025 than the year before, operating across 23 jurisdictions. The unit’s cases span drug trafficking, exchange hacks, North Korea-linked funds, terrorist financing, and kidnappings and extortion. FATF designated T3 FCU an invaluable law enforcement resource as TRM Labs estimated total illicit crypto flows reached a record $158 billion globally in 2025. The T3 Financial Crime Unit, a joint initiative backed by Tether, TRON, and blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs, has crossed $450 million in frozen assets linked to suspected criminal activity. The milestone was announced by Tether on Thursday, less than two years after the unit launched in 2024. T3 FCU focuses on USDT activity on the TRON b
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One of the largest crypto exchanges and one of the oldest asset managers in the US just decided to build something together. Payward Inc., the parent company of Kraken, is partnering with Franklin Templeton to develop tokenized investment products that live on blockchain rails. The collaboration spans tokenized equities, actively managed yield products, and the integration of Franklin Templeton’s BENJI money market fund into Kraken’s digital asset infrastructure. What the partnership actually involves First, Kraken will integrate Franklin Templeton’s BENJI money market fund as a collateral asset and cash management tool for institutional clients. Institutional traders on Kraken will be able to park cash in a tokenized money market fund and use it as collateral, rather than letting dollars sit idle in an account earning nothing. Second, the two firms plan to
The post DPRK-Affiliated Hacking Incidents Drop, but losses Increased 51% in 2025 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
North Korea (DPRK) state-affiliated hackers and threat actors were responsible for more than $2 billion in crypto losses in 2025, a 51% year-over-year increase, despite fewer attacks carried out by the group, according to cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. DPRK hackers represent the “largest” threat group targeting cryptocurrency users, as measured by the dollar amount of assets stolen, according to the company’s 2026 Financial Services Threat Landscape report. Crowdstrike added: “Stolen proceeds are almost certainly laundered to fund the regime’s military programs. Compared to 2024, DPRK-nexus adversaries conducted fewer campaigns but achieved significantly higher returns by prioritizing high-value targets.” The DPRK hackers and scammers focused on targeting Web3 projects and cryptocurrency exchanges because the stolen funds could be “cashed out” and transferred with
The post CertiK reports North Korea laundered billions through crypto theft, now shifting to physical infiltration appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
North Korea has turned crypto theft into something resembling a nationalized industry. And business is booming. A new report from blockchain security firm CertiK attributes roughly $2.06 billion of the $3.4 billion lost to crypto hacks in 2025 to groups linked to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. That’s 60% of the entire industry’s security losses for the year, spread across just 79 of 656 documented incidents. Put differently, DPRK-linked hackers accounted for 12% of all reported attacks but walked away with the majority of the money. The numbers keep getting worse CertiK’s Skynet DPRK Crypto Threats Report, shared with Cointelegraph on Tuesday, paints a picture of escalating sophistication. Between 2016 and early 2026, North Korean hacking groups stole approximately $6.75 billion in digital assets across 263 incidents. CertiK
The post Beyond the Numbers: T3 Unit’s Powerful Intervention on Digital Crime appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.
A groundbreaking collaboration between Tether, TRON, and TRM Labs has resulted in the T3 Financial Crime Unit freezing over 450 million USDT due to criminal suspicion since the beginning of September 2024. Targeting a broad spectrum of criminal activities, the unit has played a pivotal role in an international crackdown on illegal operations involving cryptocurrency […] Continue Reading:Beyond the Numbers: T3 Unit’s Powerful Intervention on Digital Crime Source: https://en.bitcoinhaber.net/beyond-the-numbers-t3-units-powerful-intervention-on-digital-crime
SOL Strategies' acquisition of Darklake could enhance Solana's privacy features, potentially reshaping blockchain transaction security and compliance.
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The Tether freeze coalition known as T3 FCU has surpassed $450 million in blocked illicit USDT since launching in 2024. The T3 Financial Crime Unit, a joint initiative backed by Tether, TRON, and blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs, has crossed…
This partnership could accelerate institutional adoption of blockchain, bridging traditional finance with crypto through regulated, tokenized assets.
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Elliptic's funding boost highlights the critical role of compliance in the evolving blockchain landscape, impacting global financial systems.
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