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Held to ransom: Empty petrol trucks parked near storage tanks linked to the Colonial Pipeline system. Fuel shortages worsened in the United States after the DarkSide hacker group disrupted the pipeline. (Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
BITCOIN

DarkSide: Following the money in the crypto age

Ransomware is the fastest-growing cryptocurrency-related crime. Known payments to ransomware attackers rose 337% from 2019 to 2020, when they reached over R5.4-billion worth of…

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
Bitcoin ‘whales’ pulling cryptocurrency
BITCOIN

Bitcoin’s crypto-nite wanes as illicit activity falls

New research shows that there were fewer cryptocurrency-related crimes in 2020 — a bumper year for the digital asset. But the biggest scam originated in South Africa

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read