{"id":4363,"date":"2022-01-14T19:36:09","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/dirty-cash-and-crypto-how-the-booming-cryptocurrency-market-is-open-to-exploitation\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T19:36:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T18:36:09","slug":"dirty-cash-and-crypto-how-the-booming-cryptocurrency-market-is-open-to-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/dirty-cash-and-crypto-how-the-booming-cryptocurrency-market-is-open-to-exploitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty cash and crypto: how the booming cryptocurrency market is open to exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the legitimate use of digital currencies grows, there has been a comparable rise in abuse, cybercrime experts say<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When the cops arrested scammer Evan Leslie McMahon in March 2019 they found a lot more than just the bootleg Netflix logins that enabled his clients to watch The Witcher on the cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Also in the possession of the early-20s hacker were nine electronic wallets containing an alphabet soup of cryptocurrencies \u2013 bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum, digibyte, XRP, stratis, bitcoin gold and litecoin \u2013 that he bought with the proceeds of his crimes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/jan\/15\/dirty-cash-and-crypto-how-the-booming-cryptocurrency-market-is-open-to-exploitation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2b2353b011da56033f8bd555ed116ad1bac3414d\/202_385_5414_3249\/master\/5414.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3affdc3213c744fbb91b24805e4d61e3\" title=\"Dirty cash and crypto: how the booming cryptocurrency market is open to exploitation\" \/>As the legitimate use of digital currencies grows, there has been a comparable rise in abuse, cybercrime experts say<\/p>\n<p>Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing<\/p>\n<p>When the cops arrested scammer Evan Leslie McMahon in March 2019 they found a lot more than just the bootleg Netflix logins that enabled his clients to watch The Witcher on the cheap.<br \/>\nAlso in the possession of the early-20s hacker were nine electronic wallets containing an alphabet soup of cryptocurrencies \u2013 bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum, digibyte, XRP, stratis, bitcoin gold and litecoin \u2013 that he bought with the proceeds of his crimes. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the legitimate use of digital currencies grows, there has been a comparable rise in abuse, cybercrime experts say Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing When the cops arrested scammer Evan Leslie McMahon in March 2019 they found a lot more than just the bootleg Netflix logins that enabled his clients &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/14\/dirty-cash-and-crypto-how-the-booming-cryptocurrency-market-is-open-to-exploitation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dirty cash and crypto: how the booming cryptocurrency market is open to exploitation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}