Criminal use of crypto spikes after years of steady decline, TRM report says

While the increasingly professional bad guys' crypto rocketed to $158 billion in 2025, it's still a decreasing share of overall digital assets activity. What to know : A new TRM Labs report says illicit activity is back up after years of falling numbers, though the share of overall digital assets volume it represents is still on the decrease. The bad actors are much more sophisticated — from state-backed sanctions-evasion infrastructure, to global networks that launder the proceeds of crypto heists.(Coindesk)