US Government Taps Nonprofit to Research Digital Currency Crime
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced it will award the National Cyber-Forensic Training Alliance (NCFTA), a cybersecurity nonprofit organization, with a contract to research crimes involving digital currencies. The one-year sole source order, published yesterday on behalf of the US Treasury Department, the Office of Illicit Finance (OIF) and the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA), establishes that the NCFTA would study virtual currency and virtual currency exchanges to provide the federal government with real-time cyber threat intelligence. In a redacted justification....
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