Cryptocurrency ransomware fell to $456.8m in 2022 as victims refused to pay, according to Chainalysis.
In its recently released ‘Crypto Crime’ report, the blockchain analytical firm stated that victims’ payments have fallen from 76 per cent in 2019 to 41 per cent in 2022. It stated that this is because ransom payments have become legally riskier, following a U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control advisory in September 2021 on the…
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