ETH Mixer Tornado Cash Reveals Blocking OFAC Sanctioned Ethereum Addresses via Chainalysis Oracle Contract – Bitcoin News

According to the project’s official Twitter account, Tornado Cash, the ethereum mixing service that allows participants to shuffle ether, is blocking flagged ethereum addresses listed on the Office of...

Tornado Cash says it’s using Chainalysis oracles to block access from OFAC sanctioned addresses

On Friday, Tornado Cash announced that it was using oracle contracts from Chainalysis to block wallet addresses sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC. The move comes after t...

OFAC Update Claims Ronin Hack Is Tethered to North Korea’s Hacker Syndicate Lazarus Group – Bitcoin News

According to the U.S. Treasury and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the recent Ronin bridge hack may have been tied to the North Korean hacker syndicate called Lazarus Group. Federal law e...

OFAC sanctions Russian crypto exchange Garantex and Hydra

TL;DR Breakdown • Hydra would be working from Moscow and Germany• OFAC will continue to investigate all those exchanges that do not comply with its regulations The foreign fund’s surveillance agency, ...

US Sanctions Russia’s Hydra Darknet, Adds Over 100 Bitcoin Wallets to OFAC List

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U.S. Targets Iranian Ballistic Missile Program With Fresh Sanctions

An Iranian flag flutters next to a ground-to-ground Sajil missile before being launched at an … [+] undisclosed location in Iran on November 12, 2008. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty...

OFAC to carry out a 2021 executive order barring transactions with Russian entities, including crypto

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is solidifying a Russia-related executive order the Biden Administration issued last year by issuing new rules on transacting with Russi...