Where's My Crypto, Dude? The Ultimate Guide to Crypto Money Laundering
Thomas Roccia
DEF CON 33 · Day 2 · Main Stage
In February 2025, North Korean threat actors stole $1.4 billion from the Bybit cryptocurrency exchange — the largest single theft in the history of cryptocurrency — and then laundered the money with b
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Thomas Roccia uses the $1.4B Bybit theft as a teaching case to build a comprehensive framework for cryptocurrency money laundering detection, covering six distinct obfuscation techniques with corresponding tracking countermeasures each. He then demonstrates an MCP-based AI agent that automates blockchain investigation via Etherscan, a blockchain intelligence API, custom pattern detection, Neo4j graph storage, and HTML report generation.