💬 CZ’s pardon might look like a win for crypto - but it also shows how political the game has become. After reports that Binance backed Trump’s World Liberty Financial through a $2B USD1 deal, the timing feels... strategic. Check the wallet transfering $2B worth of USD1,

10/10 We’ve updated our @Dune dashboard with 👇 ✅ TRON data ✅ Unblacklist, Burn & Redeem tracking ✅ 2023–2025 coverage (ERC-20 + TRC-20) 🔍 Explore every frozen, unblacklisted & refunded fund: 👉 https://t.co/LXwgRJDBBv…

9/10 Both raise the same question: where is the line between financial safety and censorship risk? Tether’s speed protects victims but centralizes power. But it backfired - Riverstone Consultancy Inc. a firm based in Houston, Texas, has sued Tether for illegally freezing $44m of

8/10 Key differences 🟡 Tether — proactive & fast, often freezing before court orders, working with LE & intel firms. 🔵 Circle — reactive, acts mainly on judicial or OFAC orders. Result: 10× more $USDT than $USDC frozen (2023–2025).

7/10 However, Tether does not just freeze — it uses burn + redeem events to refund verified victims. So far, Circle offers no such option. Once $USDC is frozen, it stays that way or gets unfrozen.

6/10 Tether confirmed the freeze, calling the assets “connected to fraudulent and transnational criminal operations.” That same month: $130 M USDT frozen - the busiest on record. Triggered by joint operations in Cambodia, Laos & Thailand.

5/10 Case: Huione Group (Cambodia) In July 2024, Tether froze $29.6 M USDT on TRON linked to Huione Group — a network behind pig-butchering scams, money laundering & human-trafficking payments. Huione wallets moved over $11 B in crypto, mostly USDT

4/10 This policy became crucial during 2024, when major law-enforcement crackdowns hit scam networks across SE Asia. One case stood out 👇

3/10 🟡 Tether ($USDT) actively manages its blacklist: 1️⃣ Permanent freeze 2️⃣ Unblacklist if cleared 3️⃣ Burn & reissue → destroy stolen tokens and mint new ones for victims 🔵 Circle ($USDC): usually just freezes — months later, after a court order. No unblacklist, no refund

2/10 Between 2023–2025, stablecoin issuers quietly froze billions in stolen funds. 💥 $3.29 B USDT banned 💥 $109 M USDC banned 📍 USDT 7 268 addresses 📍 USDC 372 addresses But what happens after the freeze shows how different Tether vs Circle really are

🧵❓If a hacker stole your funds -  could you actually get a refund in $USDT or $USDC? Answer- depends on the stablecoin! Tether has a “burn and reissue” function that lets it destroy stolen USDT and mint it back to rightful owners. Victims in $USDC? They can only hope for a

@coinbase 5/5 ⚠️ Why it matters: A stolen mod token = fake airdrop factory. A single infected PC = compromised community. Protect yourself & your servers: ✅ Don’t run random files ✅ Verify links & sources ✅ Use 2FA / hardware keys ✅ Rotate tokens after incidents Stay sharp — the Evil

4/5 💸 We traced one of their wallets on @coinbase 3MkgYn3HvxB2Bxx3SwvYGPNyrLjvr7KTu4 — tied to Evil Soul’s operator. ~0.0037 BTC moved through ~8 transactions, most likely from EvilSoul customers.

3/5 🪤 Distribution: pure social engineering. • “Free Nitro” generators • Game cheats & mods • “Crypto utilities” Shared via DMs, Telegram, or Discord’s own CDN. Simple, viral, effective. The group behind it? A Telegram hub @EvilSoulStealer (~300 members) run by a user

2/5 🎯 Once launched, Evil Soul injects itself into the Discord client, quietly stealing new session tokens every time you log in. Victims don’t notice — until they see fake airdrops posted from their own servers. The loot? Discord tokens, saved passwords, cookies, even wallet

💀 Evil Soul — a Brazilian-made Discord infostealer with a taste for tokens, cookies & crypto. Masquerading as “Free Nitro” or game cheats, it turns a single click into full account takeover — Discord, browser, and sometimes your wallet. We followed its trail from Telegram to the

Everyone’s focused on the $15B BTC — but the real story is structural. 🏦💸DOJ basically mapped a shadow central bank. Prince Group’s wallets mirrored interbank accounts: mining ops = liquidity washers, Huione OTC = rails, Prince Bank = off-ramp. A full criminal economy, not

@peckshield 5/5 Bottom line: Messaging hackers rarely works. But when it does - it matters. If just 5% of victims recover assets, that’s millions saved. And every message is a breadcrumb for OSINT and forensics. Forever public. Forever traceable. 👁 At AMLBot, we read them all. — End 🧵

@peckshield 4/5 Most victims didn’t plead. They offered deals. Common message format: “Return 90%, keep 10% as a bounty. We won’t pursue further.”

3/5 August 2025 saw a major spike in requests. Why? Because the hacks exploded. According to @peckshield: #PeckShieldAlert: August ’25 saw 16 major exploits Losses totaled $163M, up from $142M in July. We saw message volume surge immediately after