Terror Financing

Nominis data aligns with the US Senate's latest report concerning Iran's reliance on USDT.

Nominis traced a group posing as a humanitarian NGO on social media back to a cluster of Solana wallets funding Hezbollah, acting as an IRGC proxy. ChangeNOW's compliance team froze the funds on notification.

US Treasury's Operation Economic Outcast hits five sectors at once, including digital assets. Nominis breaks down what it means for IRGC financing.

134 wallets sanctioned by OFAC. Nominis assesses the real network is far larger. See where the money actually cashes out.

Nominis and Coleven traced an anonymous donation account routing crypto to a Hezbollah-linked charity front across five blockchains, surfacing a Solana address that Tron-anchored screening would have missed.

Analysis of the IRGC-linked Hormuz Safe crypto insurance network, Bitcoin payments, and Babak Zanjani’s continued role in sanctions evasion infrastructure.

Iran’s access to cryptocurrency could blunt the impact of a US blockade and reshape economic pressure tactics.

NOMINIS says IRGC-linked networks used UK crypto infrastructure to move funds, sharpening concern after an Iran-linked group claimed responsibility for the Golders Green ambulance attack.

NOMINIS analysis traces financial flows from UK financial institutions through cryptocurrency infrastructure to networks linked to Iranian-aligned militant groups targeting British military assets.

The UAE’s economic relationship with Iran didn’t prevent escalation. A closer look at trade, crypto flows, and strategic risk.

New NOMINIS research reveals illicit actors are 12x more likely to use crypto exchanges in low-risk FATF countries.

Iran’s largest exchange, Nobitex, staked $10M in Ethereum in a single 6-hour window. NOMINIS analysis highlights potential sanctions evasion and blockchain infrastructure risks amid rising US-Iran tensions.

On-chain evidence, wallet behaviour, and attribution signals from the Upbit hack analysed through a threat-intelligence lens.

NOMINIS exposes how Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) moved millions in USDT through London-registered crypto exchanges ZedCex and ZedXion between 2023–2025, revealing sophisticated sanctions evasion and weaknesses in AML controls on blockchain platforms.

An on-chain investigation into allegations that Binance facilitated terrorist financing, analysing crypto wallets linked to Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran’s IRGC using blockchain forensics.

An investigation into how terror-linked networks may be leveraging Australian banks and cryptocurrency, exposing compliance risks in the wake of the Bondi Beach attack.

This article investigates the genuine scale of terror financing in crypto. Learn how Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, and IRGC-linked actors use digital assets, why public estimates are often misleading, and the real scale of crypto-based terror funding.

September 2025 saw a massive increase in deepfakes and Telegram scams. North Korean hackers have been targeting crypto leaders and high-asset investors, altering their focus away from the usual targets of large institutions.

In Nigeria’s northeast, a silent financial shift is taking place. While headlines focus on the violence of Boko Haram and offshoot ISWAP’s territorial gains, the group’s financial architecture is undergoing a quieter transformation. This financial shift will move the groups off the banking grid, allowing them to move funds, reward fighters and sustain control over entire communities via the blockchain.

A growing trend in the Web3 landscape involves fundraising through Instant Community Monetization (ICM). Projects are rapidly developed using AI-powered coding tools (e.g., Cursor), then deployed and publicised on social platforms like X (formerly Twitter). Visibility is often amplified by tagging platforms such as @launchcoin, which may automatically create tokens tied to the project.

The recent decision by Lebanon’s central bank to prohibit all interactions with Al-Qard-Al-Hassan, the financial arm of Hezbollah, marks a significant regulatory milestone. While the move tightens the net on Hezbollah’s presence in formal finance, it is unfortunately unlikely to slow the group down. In fact it’s likely to push the group further in their acceleration which is already in motion, towards a deep reliance on crypto-currency.

As Web3 ecosystems continue to expand globally, they are also growing as prime targets for covert operations - particularly from North Korean operatives posing as remote developers. Recent investigations have uncovered a disturbing trend: state-backed North Korean IT and Web3 workers infiltrating crypto companies by faking their identities, passing interviews with falsified credentials, siphoning earnings back to the regime as well as critical information about Western Web3 projects.

Proliferation Financing (PF) refers to the act of providing financial support for the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

Afghanistan’s financial landscape has been in turmoil since the Taliban’s takeover in August 2021, with economic sanctions, frozen reserves, and the collapse of the U.S.-backed government pushing the nation further and further into crisis.

Recent years have demonstrated the growing reliance of cryptocurrency by terrorist organizations attempting to counter and avoid the traditional counterterrorism financing measures in place by regulatory services. The online nature of fundraising based on social media, such as telegram, has revealed the significant rise and role in digital currency to allow these terrorist groups, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic State Khorasan (ISK) , the Taliban, IS and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad to fu

In 2023, NOMINIS (Xplorisk) identified 5,000 cryptocurrency wallets linked to terror financing, some of which had collectively transferred $100 million.

In recent years, Telegram has emerged as a significant platform for cryptocurrency-related criminal activities.

Cryptocurrency has become a powerful tool for donations, offering transparency, efficiency, and a global reach that has transformed philanthropic giving, project funding, and even political campaigns.