The article cites that a surge in low-level use cases: prostitution, drug sales, child pornography trades have all surged which was the inspiration for CipherTrace's Scout app.
companies like this are always spreading bullshit to justify the services they are trying to sell to others otherwise they have no way of knowing this and also logically speaking none of the use cases they are mentioning can even work with cryptocurrencies! all of them without exception rely heavily on fiat and it is not going to change any time soon.