Kim Grauer

Kim Grauer, Director of Research for Chainalysis, discusses the 2024 Crypto Crime Report in the podcast. Topics include ransomware, sanctions evasion in regions like Russia and North Korea, decreased funds stolen in hacks, rise of romance scams in crypto, and impact of pandemic on crypto utilization and crime.

Kim Grauer, Director of Research at Chainalysis, discusses real-time economic-data analytics on blockchain, ML for predicting criminal patterns, crime investigation use cases, tools she uses daily, and the future of crypto and data science.

Gurvais Grigg, Global Public Sector CTO at Chainalysis with a rich background in FBI counterterrorism, teams up with Kim Grauer, Director of Research at Chainalysis and a cryptocurrency crime analyst. Together, they dissect the evolution of ransomware into a lucrative business. They reveal how hacking groups like REvil employ sophisticated strategies and why Bitcoin is the payment of choice. The duo also discusses the challenges of ransomware reporting and how governments are adapting counter-terrorism tactics to combat this growing threat.