> In most cases, cybercrime groups sent funds to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, from where they converted the stolen funds into real-world fiat currency.
So it's more easily traced if it touches exchanges then. Fiat has serial numbers which are trivial to tie back to specific transactions. Just hold the cryptocurrency and spend it as you would fiat, don't exchange it for fiat as you get caught that way.
> In most cases, cybercrime groups sent funds to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges, from where they converted the stolen funds into real-world fiat currency.
So it's more easily traced if it touches exchanges then. Fiat has serial numbers which are trivial to tie back to specific transactions. Just hold the cryptocurrency and spend it as you would fiat, don't exchange it for fiat as you get caught that way.