Arizona’s legislator, David Schweikert, introduced “Scam Farms Marque and Retrusal Authorization Act of 2025” in August, which offers neo -privains – state punished by the State – to combat cybercriminals engaged in threats to the United States.
The bill authorizes the American president to issue mark letters to “armed and private equipped persons” under contract by the government to “use all reasonably necessary means” to seize property and hold or “punish” cybercriminals considered as a threat from the president.
These threats include crypto flight, pork butcher’s scams, ransomware attacks, identity theft, access to computers without authorization to collect personal or sensitive classified information, online password traffic and compromise compromises with malicious code. The bill read:
“Criminal companies that employ cybercrime and forced work present an unusual and extraordinary threat to economic and national security in the United States.”
The bill characterized scams as “war acts” perpetrated by individuals, organized criminals and foreign governments against the United States and is a revival of an 18th century law which could have implications for the future of cybersecurity and the seizure of assets if adopted.
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The United States could channel the assets entered in the Bitcoin reserve and the stock of national crypto
More than $ 142 million in crypto were lost against hackers in July, and the total amount of the crypto stolen so far in 2025 exceeds $ 3 billion. The stolen crypto seized by officials of the application of American laws in surveys could later be confiscated from the government in legal proceedings.
US President Donald Trump signed an executive decree in January by establishing a Bitcoin and Crypto reserve, which could not accumulate crypto through budgetary strategies or asset confiscation.
In July, the American federal government filed a civil complaint to claim more than 20 bitcoin (BTC), worth more than $ 2.3 million, seized by the Dallas, Texas, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) division during an operation against the Chaos Ransomware Pirates Group.
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The United States Ministry of Justice (DOJ) also seized $ 1 million in Blacksuit Ransomware Group Crypto in the same month.
In August, the DOJ authorized the seizure of $ 2.8 million in crypto of a portfolio controlled by Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko, which was accused of targeting individuals and businesses with ransomware attacks.
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