Research published by Chainalysis shows that nation-state cyber actors are leading an unprecedented expansion in the use of public distributed ledgers to orchestrate cyberattacks. Analysts recorded a 440% year-on-year surge in what the industry terms "blockchain dead drop" (BDD) techniques. In these schemes, threat actors insert malicious commands and routing instructions straight into public ledger records and automated smart contracts.[1]
Conventional attack infrastructure relies on centraliz
