[Cryptography] In the latest unexpected ransomware twist ...
John Levine
johnl at iecc.com
Mon Jun 7 18:03:03 EDT 2021
The U.S. Justice Department says it has recoverd most of the bitcoin ransom that
Colonial Pipeline paid in the ransomware attack last month.
.. by reviewing the Bitcoin public ledger, law enforcement was able to
track multiple transfers of bitcoin and identify that approximately
63.7 bitcoins, representing the proceeds of the victim’s ransom
payment, had been transferred to a specific address, for which the FBI
has the “private key,”
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-seizes-23-million-cryptocurrency-paid-ransomware-extortionists-darkside
R's,
John
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