The U.S. Treasury Department is seeing an increase in illicit crypto use according to a Thursday report. The department’s 2024 National Risk Assessments on Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, and Proliferation Financing report highlights that virtual assets are increasingly used by illicit actors to launder drug trafficking proceeds despite cash-based transfers still being the primary mechanism. The post Illicit Virtual Asset Use On The Rise, U.S. Treasury Report Reveals appeared first on Cryptonews .