The fiendish new trick cyber-criminals are using to evade capture

stapp · Aug 13, 2021

"Follow the money" - for generations it's been the mantra of investigators looking for criminals.
In the cyber-realm, this battle between criminals and the authorities has been raging for years.
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But could the tide be turning?
A new service has launched on the darknet offering criminals a way to check how "clean" their digital coins are.
"We're seeing criminals start to fight back against blockchain analytics and this service is a first," explained Dr Tom Robinson, chief scientist and founder at analysis provider Elliptic, who discovered the website.
"It's called Antianalysis and criminals are now able to check their own Bitcoin wallets and see whether any association with criminal activity could be flagged by authorities," Dr Robinson said.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58176113

guest · Aug 13, 2021

New Anti Anti-Money Laundering Services for Crooks
August 13, 2021
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/08/new-anti-anti-money-laundering-services-for-crooks/

A new dark web service is marketing to cybercriminals who are curious to see how their various cryptocurrency holdings and transactions may be linked to known criminal activity. Dubbed “Antinalysis,” the service purports to offer a glimpse into how one’s payment activity might be flagged by law enforcement agencies and private companies that try to link suspicious cryptocurrency transactions to real people.

“Worried about dirty funds in your BTC address? Come check out Antinalysis, the new address risk analyzer,” reads the service’s announcement, pointing to a link only accessible via ToR. “This service is dedicated to individuals that have the need to possess complete privacy on the blockchain, offering a perspective from the opponent’s point of view in order for the user to comprehend the possibility of his/her funds getting flagged down under autocratic illegal charges.”
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Tom Robinson, co-founder of blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic, said Antinalysis is designed to help crypto money launderers test whether their funds will be identified as proceeds of crime by regulated financial exchanges.

“Cryptoassets have become an important tool for cybercriminals,” Robinson wrote. “The likes of ransomware and darknet markets rely on payments being made in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. However, laundering and cashing-out these proceeds is a major challenge.”
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Update, 1:52 p.m. ET: Elliptic updated its blog post to confirm the connection between Antinalysis and AMLBot, noting that AMLBot itself is a reseller of yet another service: “As first suggested in an article by Brian Krebs, we can now confirm that the results provided by Antinalysis are identical to those provided by AMLBot. It is therefore likely that Antinalysis makes use of the AMLBot API. AMLBot is itself a reseller for Crystal Blockchain, an analytics provider.”
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