The increased digitisation of fraud can be seen not only from the way in which victims are targeted – through hacking, malware, and other cybercrime – but also in terms of the assets being fraudulently obtained.
April 2020 marked 10 years since Bitcoin was invented, but until recently its legal status had not been examined. The last few months were a period of significant development in the legal response to frauds involving cryptocurrencies. The recent cases have highlighted that our traditional conceptions of property rights and interim remedies which can be marshalled in response to fraud, needed rapid re-thinking in order to be fit for purpose.
