Ukrainian police shut down nine Bitcoin exchanges

The National Police of Ukraine, in collaboration with the FBI заблокировала nine cryptocurrency exchanges that were used to launder criminal funds.

The sites in question are 24xbtc.com, 100btc.pro, pridechange.com, 101crypta.com, uxbtc.com, trust-exchange.org, bitcoin24.exchange, paybtc.pro and owl.gold.

According to investigators, cybercriminals laundered proceeds from ransomware attacks and online scams through them. Anonymous exchange services were advertised on closed hacker forums.

Authorities blocked the network infrastructure hosted on servers in the United States, European countries and Ukraine. The domain names were seized.

Authorities are continuing work to identify those involved in the criminal activity.

In March, the team behind the decentralized security protocol HAPI unveiled beta version of the Scamfari OSINT platform for gathering information on cryptocurrency wallets linked to fraud, sanctions evasion, financing of terrorism and other crimes.