Tag: Fraud Schemes

Tracing Billions: How Blockchain Analytics Uncover Crypto Scams

Dec 15, 2025

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Marc Schwartz

in Blockchain Analytics, Digital Assets & Cryptocurrency

In November 2024 we traced $1.8 million in scammed BTC. As of today, we have traced a total of $1.7 billion of cryptocurrency scammed over several years. Because of the immutable nature of blockchains, they provide visible, permanent, tamper-proof records that can be analyzed years later. Reactor, the software we use to trace cryptocurrency and…
AI-Powered Phishing Is Reshaping Cybersecurity Risks for Businesses

Oct 10, 2025

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by

Marc Schwartz

in Fraud & Fraud Prevention, Fraud Prevention

The October issue of the Journal of Accountancy included a frightening article on the impact of AI on hacker attacks. Hackers are using large language models (LLMs) to generate communications to be used in hacking attacks. LLMs is the technology that is used to scan large data sets to permit AI to respond to our…