Thomas Daniels
Mukuita kwakasimba kurwisa cybercrime ine chekuita necryptocurrency, zviremera zveGerman zvakabata € 34 miriyoni (inenge $38 miriyoni) mumidziyo yedhijitari kubva kucrypto exchange eXch. Nzvimbo iyi inonzi yakafambisa kubiwa kwemari yakabiwa panguva yeBybit hack ye $ 1.5 bhiriyoni muna February 2025. Oparesheni iyi, yakaziviswa musi waMay 9 neFederal Criminal Police Office (BKA) uye Frankfurt Public Prosecutor's Office, inomiririra yechitatu-yakakura crypto asset sezure munhoroondo yeGermany.
Zvinhu zvakatorwa zvinosanganisira Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), uye Dash (DASH). Pamusoro pemidziyo yedhijitari, zviremera zvakabvisa eXch's server infrastructure, kuchengetedza anopfuura masere terabytes edata. Nzvimbo yepuratifomu, pamwe neyayo clearnet uye darknet interfaces, yakatorwa kunze kwenyika.
Yakatangwa muna 2014, eXch inoshanda seye cryptocurrency swapping service, ichigonesa kuchinjana kwezvinhu zvedhijitari pasina kuita matanho eAnti-Money Laundering (AML) kana Ziva Mutengi Wako (KYC) protocol. Uku kushaikwa kwemitemo kwakaita kuti ive nzira inoyevedza yekuyerera kwemari zvisiri pamutemo. Vanoongorora vanofungidzira kuti eXch yakagadziridzwa inosvika madhora bhiriyoni imwe nemazana mapfumbamwe emadhora mukutengeserana, chikamu chikuru chazvo chinotendwa kuti chine chekuita nematsotsi.
Chikamu chinocherechedzwa chemidziyo yakacheneswa chakabva mukuputswa kweBybit, uko kunoda kusvika 401,000 ETH yakabiwa. Vaongorori vakashuma kuti zviuru zvishanu zveETH zvakafambiswa kuburikidza neXch uye zvakazoshandurwa kuita Bitcoin kuburikidza neChainflip protocol. Boka reNorth Korea rakabatana naLazarus Group rinofungidzirwa kuti ndiro riri kukonzeresa cyberattack iyi.
eXch zvakare yakabatanidzwa kune dzimwe mhosva huru dzecrypto, kusanganisira kubiwa kwemamiriyoni mazana maviri nemakumi mana nematatu emadhora anosanganisira vakweretesi veGenesis, FixedFloat exploit, uye hutsotsi hwakapararira. Sekureva kwemuongorori weBlockchain ZachXBT, chikuva chakaramba chichifuratira zvikumbiro zvekuvharisa kero dzinofungidzirwa kana kutevedzera maodha echando.
Zvisinei nekuzivisa kuvharwa panosvika Chivabvu 1, eXch inonzi yakaramba ichipa masevhisi eAPI kune vamwe vanobatika. Mafemu ehungwaru akacherekedza chiitiko chiri kuitika pa-chetani, kusanganisira kutengeserana kwakabatana nezvinhu zvekushungurudzwa kwevana pabonde (CSAM), kunyangwe mushure mekuvharwa kweruzhinji.
Muchuchisi Mukuru weHurumende Benjamin Krause akasimbisa kukosha kwekubvisa mazita e-crypto-swapping platforms, achitaura kuti mabasa akadaro anoita basa rinokosha pakuvhara mari dzisiri dzepamutemo dzinobva muhutsotsi hwemakombiyuta uye hutsotsi hwemari.
Ichi chiito chekusimudzira chinoratidza danho rakakosha mukuyedza kwepasi rose kurwisa crypto-enabled money laundering. Sezvo midziyo yedhijitari inowedzera kugamuchirwa, masangano anodzora ari kuwedzera kuongorora kwavo kuti ave nechokwadi chekuve pamutemo uye pachena kwecrypto mari masisitimu.
