Operation Atlantic deploys real-time blockchain tracing to disrupt $83.8M in crypto approval phishing

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$12M frozen out of $83.8M in total EVM approval phishing losses means ~14% recovery rate on a vector that was already down 83% YoY (from $494M in 2024) — wallet-level mitigations like approve() warnings and Revoke.cash adoption were doing the heavy lifting before any LEA showed up. What's more operationally novel is the sprint model: TRM and Chainalysis analysts embedded at NCA headquarters in London, triaging thousands of addresses in real-time and producing seizure-ready intelligence packages that prosecutors can actually file on. Proactive victim outreach via phone and email is a first for crypto enforcement, but 20,000 identified victims still need to manually revoke dangling token approvals — and most won't know how until their wallet's already drained again.

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