Darknet Users Leverage a New Blockchain Analytics Tool That Scans for Ties to Criminal Activity
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Darknet Users Leverage a New Blockchain Analytics Tool That Scans for Ties to Criminal Activity

THELOGICALINDIAN - According to the blockchain intelligence close Elliptic cybercriminals are leveraging cryptocurrency analytics to get advanced of law administration Elliptic says a blockchain analytics apparatus has been launched on the aphotic web and the apparatus is alleged Antinalysis

Meet the Blockchain Analytics Tool ‘Antinalysis’ Hosted on Tor

On August 13, the blockchain surveillance aggregation Egg-shaped appear a blog post that capacity how the close apparent a blockchain analytics apparatus that is leveraged by cybercriminals to assure themselves. The apparatus dubbed “Antinalysis” allows “bitcoin addresses to be arrested for links to bent activity,” Egg-shaped claims.

The company’s advertisement added states that Antinalysis gives individuals the adeptness to “test whether their funds will be articular as gain of abomination by adapted exchanges.” The company’s blog column adds:

Elliptic says that the architect of Antinalysis is a software developer abaft the darknet bazaar (DNM) Incognito Market. The tool’s mission account is: “offering a angle from the opponent’s point of view,” Elliptic’s blog column details.

People utilizing the Antinalysis apparatus are advantageous $3 to attending at a distinct bitcoin abode and the apparatus break bottomward onchain movements. Users can pay for the account by application bitcoin (BTC) or monero (XMR), Elliptic’s address highlights.

“Antinalysis claims to action awful authentic after-effects and to accept absolute this by comparing them to those generated by commercially accessible blockchain analytics tools,” Elliptic said. “However, Elliptic’s own appraisal of the after-effects alternate for a ambit of bitcoin addresses shows that it was poor at audition links to above darknet markets and added bent entities.” The blog column added stresses:

Furthermore, Elliptic emphasized in the blog column that an article appear by the able-bodied accepted aegis researcher Brian Krebs additionally came to the aforementioned conclusions. Both Krebs and Elliptic detail that Antinalysis acceptable leverages the AMLBot API which is a apparatus crafted by the blockchain intelligence close Crystal Blockchain.

“The after-effects provided by Antinalysis are identical to those provided by AMLBot,” Elliptic’s annual of the new apparatus explains.

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