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🚨 PSA: We continue to receive reports of third parties impersonating Chainalysis on various platforms. These scammers often use similar tactics and offer everything from help recovering lost funds to fake jobs usually in exchange for information or a fee. Our team works hard to detect and take these scams and impersonations down as soon as they are discovered, however if you get any of these messages, or believe you may be the victim of a scam, contact local law enforcement. You can also let us know via spoof@chainalysis.com so we can continue to track and manage these scams proactively.
𝐖𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐒𝐓. We also won’t:
💰Ask you for funds
💸Promise you recovery of lost funds from scams or hacks
📋Offer you a job in exchange for any type of “fee”
💻Ask you to provide your information via a link on text, messaging services or unverified email
📵Send you unsolicited phone calls, emails, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram or text/SMS
🔗Reminder: Chainalysis primarily provides its products and services to public and private sector businesses, and does not engage in investigation assistance for individual victims
We have more tips you can use to verify if the contact is legitimate on our website: chainalysis.com/scams
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Chainalysis investigators are actively tracking the $352 million exploit of Bitget. We have added stolen fund labels across all products.
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The global crypto economy held up through the bear market. At $9.4 trillion, it retreated just 1.6 percent YoY despite the widespread crypto price collapse. Our latest research explains why.
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Peer-to-peer services also gained strength globally. Nearly every region of the world saw major YoY expansions in their local crypto economies.
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Our 2026 Geography of Crypto report takes you through the world’s crypto economies. It’s anchored by our research team’s expertise and illustrated by on-the-ground insights. Read more and reserve your copy:
chainalysis.com/blog/2026-gl…
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✈️ Heading to @acams_aml in Las Vegas? The Chainalysis team will be onsite and would love to connect! Request a meeting: bit.ly/4rrjdfh
You can also catch us at the Chainalysis-sponsored opening-night pool reception on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
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OFAC recently sanctioned BitBank of Iran, an Iranian digital assets venture controlled by OFAC SDN Babak Zanjani, as part of Operation Economic Outcast. Between June and July 2026, Zanjani used BitBank of Iran to facilitate the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of bitcoin to the IRGC.
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The action also sanctioned BitBank of Iran's software developer, Pishtaz Simorgh Electronic Trade Company — a subsidiary of previously-sanctioned Dot One Value Creation Group — along with three Zanjani associates: Hossein Ali Zaker Hossein, Mohammad Mahdi Zaker Hossein, and Seyed Adel Heidari.
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Zanjani was sentenced to death in Iran in 2016 for embezzling millions from the National Iranian Oil Company. His sentence was commuted in 2024, and by 2025 he had re-emerged as a backer of regime-linked economic projects, including a network of digital asset companies used to launder money for the IRGC.
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The action also sanctioned BitBank of Iran's software developer, Pishtaz Simorgh Electronic Trade Company — a subsidiary of previously-sanctioned Dot One Value Creation Group — along with three Zanjani associates: Hossein Ali Zaker Hossein, Mohammad Mahdi Zaker Hossein, and Seyed Adel Heidari.
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Zanjani was sentenced to death in Iran in 2016 for embezzling millions from the National Iranian Oil Company. His sentence was commuted in 2024, and by 2025 he had re-emerged as a backer of regime-linked economic projects, including a network of digital asset companies used to launder money for the IRGC.
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Our latest research shows how North Korean and Iranian hackers are increasingly launching hard-to-stop cyberattacks. And they’re using blockchains to do it.
We call the attack tactic “Blockchain Dead Drops,” or BDDs. BDDs are getting more sophisticated, more prevalent, and therefore more dangerous.
Read on:
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Once only a tactic of cybercriminals, BDDs are now most popular with state actors. We’ve tracked campaigns mounted by North Korean and Iranian agents over the past 12 months.
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We give a full breakdown of how nation-states are using BDDs in our latest report.
Read more: chainalysis.com/blog/etherhi…
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Mule networks are driving fraud losses across P2P, remittances, e-commerce, and instant payments, but traditional rules often catch them too late.
📺 Join our webinar on pre-transaction risk scoring, Reg E, and multi-rail fraud prevention. 🔎 Register: bit.ly/3UKQqGu
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