The incomes of operators of Bitcoin and other digital currencies and other digital currencies amounted to $ 813 million over the past year-35% less than in 2023, the analysts of the company CHAINALYSIS said.

The volume of stolen funds in the first half of 2024 increased by almost $ 2.4% compared to 2023, including $ 75 million associated with the Dark Angels hackers grouping.

At the same time, a significant decrease in payments for extortion in the second half of the year led to a reduction in the total amount of income, analysts at CHAINALYSIS noted:

“It has become more difficult for attackers to wash the illegally received income due to sanctions against the Russian exchange of Cryptex and blocking the German authorities of servers 47 crypto-rhizas working without compliance with the legislation on checking the personality of customers.”

The gap between the payments required by the attackers and the amounts sent to them is growing – the victims that pay to the extortionists, send less and less funds compared to the requirements of criminals, and experts summed up.

Earlier, SCAMSNIFFER security experts exposed the scheme that attackers use to steal the sid-fraise for Phantom Wallet cryptocurrency wallet users.