THELOGICALINDIAN - The administrator of the US Central Intelligence Bureau CIA has appear that the bureau is alive on a cardinal of cryptocurrencyfocused projects Cryptocurrencies could accept astronomic appulse on aggregate from ransomware attacks he said
CIA Has Been Working on Various Crypto Projects
CIA Director William Burns appear Monday at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Summit that the bureau is alive on “a cardinal of altered projects focused on cryptocurrency.”
Responding to a catechism from addition in the admirers about whether the CIA is on top of cryptocurrencies, Burns said:
Burn abundant that the bureau is “trying to attending at second- and third-order after-effects as able-bodied and allowance our colleagues in added genitalia of the U.S. government to accommodate solid intelligence on what we’re seeing as well.”
The CIA administrator explained that cryptocurrencies “could accept astronomic appulse on aggregate from ransomware attacks … because one of the means of accepting at ransomware attacks and black them is to be able to get at the banking networks that so abounding of those bent networks use and that gets appropriate at the affair of agenda currencies as well.”
The U.S. government has fabricated active ransomware a key priority. In June, the Biden administering expanded “cryptocurrency assay to acquisition and accompany bent transactions” as allotment of its action to action ransomware.
In addition, the Department of the Treasury has taken actions adjoin cryptocurrency exchanges “responsible for bed-making ransoms” as allotment of the whole-of-government accomplishment to adverse ransomware. One barter was accustomed in September and another in November.
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