Interpol Held a Dark Market War Game Using its Own Cryptocurrency
International police organisation Interpol held an interactive training seminar in Singapore last month that utilized an internally developed cryptocurrency and a mock dark market. The organization's Global Complex for Innovation (GCI) developed the cryptocurrency to use for modelling use cases related to cybercrime. At the time, GCI suggested that it would come to be used in subsequent trainings, the first of which saw 24 participants from law enforcement agencies from around the world. Countries represented included Australia, France, Ghana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Sri....
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People go on using bitcoin to buy merchandise from the dark web markets, while criminals seek ransom in bitcoin for one reason. They feel protected when they use bitcoin, because of its decentralized nature and the anonymity (pseudonymity) associated with the digital currency. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world the security agencies are preparing themselves to tackle crimes related to bitcoin and other digital currencies. For those who are not aware of it yet, Interpol has created its own version of digital currency and they have been using it to train police forces belonging to....
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Interpol's cybercrime research facility, the Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI), has created its own digital currency in a bid to combat cryptocurrency-fuelled crime. The IGCI team, which includes members from Singapore's police force, will use its in-house virtual currency to study scenarios of cryptocurrency use and misuse in a specially designed simulation training game. Madan Mohan Oberoi, IGCI director of cyber innovation and outreach, confirmed to a local news outlet that his team has made progress in several projects already. Last month two Interpol researchers, Christian Karam....