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Six banks share customer info to help Singapore fight money laundering
2024-04-02 00:59

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Canada's anti-money laundering agency offline after cyberattack
2024-03-06 17:30

The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada has announced that a "Cyber incident" forced it to take its corporate systems offline as a precaution. FINTRAC is a government agency in Canada that operates as the country's financial intelligence unit.

How Cybercriminals are Exploiting India's UPI for Money Laundering Operations
2024-03-04 13:50

Cybercriminals are using a network of hired money mules in India using an Android-based application to orchestrate a massive money laundering scheme. The malicious application, called XHelper, is...

Belarusian National Linked to BTC-e Faces 25 Years for $4 Billion Crypto Money Laundering
2024-02-05 16:36

A 42-year-old Belarusian and Cypriot national with alleged connections to the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e is facing charges related to money laundering and operating an unlicensed...

Founder of Bitzlato Cryptocurrency Exchange Pleads Guilty in Money-Laundering Scheme
2023-12-08 05:41

The Russian founder of the now-defunct Bitzlato cryptocurrency exchange has pleaded guilty, nearly 11 months after he was arrested in Miami earlier this year. Anatoly Legkodymov (aka Anatolii...

Unpacking the challenges of anti-money laundering obligations
2023-11-09 05:30

When managing anti-money laundering obligations, many challenger banks turn to basic or unproven in-house risk management solutions. Although these solutions can, in some ways, be innovative, they are often built quickly and lack thorough testing, leading to potential vulnerabilities.

NYC Couple Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering in $3.6 Billion Bitfinex Hack
2023-08-04 12:13

A married couple from New York City has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in connection with the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, resulting in the theft of about...

How Google Cloud’s AML AI redefines the fight against money laundering
2023-07-12 04:00

Google Cloud's AML AI represents an advancement in the fight against money laundering. In this Help Net Security interview, Anna Knizhnik, Director, Product Management, Cloud AI, Financial Services, at Google Cloud, explains how Google Cloud's AML AI outperforms current systems, lowers operational costs, enhances governance, and improves the customer experience by reducing false positives and minimizing compliance verification checks.

Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Linked to Ryuk Ransomware
2023-02-08 09:39

A Russian national on February 7, 2023, pleaded guilty in the U.S. to money laundering charges and for attempting to conceal the source of funds obtained in connection with Ryuk ransomware attacks. "Between at least August 2018 and August 2021, Dubnikov and his co-conspirators laundered the proceeds of Ryuk ransomware attacks on individuals and organizations throughout the United States and abroad," the Department of Justice said.

As the anti-money laundering perimeter expands, who needs to be compliant, and how?
2023-02-01 05:00

Here's everything you need to know about what services need an AML revamp and how they should go about it. Gather enough data as fast as possible, and you can instantly spot bad actors and block them out, and move to more extensive KYC procedures to ensure their names do not appear on any AML lists and gauge the true intentions of suspicious users, saving money on unnecessary KYC and AML screenings.