many thanks, Manuel baker
"de nada"
spinning the hack of Bitcoin by Biden's DOJ:
https://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-recovers-majority-of-colonial-pipeline-ransom-we-turned-the-tables-on-dark-side-210611828.html
DarkSide’s malware is one of hundreds of ransomware variants the FBI is currently tracking, according to FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate, who also spoke at the press conference. During its investigation into DarkSide, the FBI identified “more than 90 victims” of the same kind of attack that hit Colonial, from manufacturing companies to legal, insurance, health care and energy firms, Abbate said.
they keep saying it's "Darkside", but it is just the brand name, like Linux or MsDOS
While bitcoin has a reputation of being anonymous and secretive, leading criminal operators to use it to try to disguise their activities, the online ledger of payments is actually designed to be entirely public. A bitcoin user can use a pseudonym to open a virtual wallet, for instance, but that doesn’t always prevent law enforcement from accessing it or uncovering its owner.
but that doesn’t always prevent law enforcement from accessing it or uncovering its owner. so they dusted Darkside's customers PO Box in Russia and voila???
Ransomware attacks have gone up by over 300 percent in the last year, costing victims over $350 million, according to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The DOJ and the FBI will continue to play a role responding to attacks and assisting victims after the fact. Monaco said one of her first moves in her new role was to launch a strategic cyber review within the department. The DOJ also recently created a ransomware task force to marshal its resources against the problem. While the DOJ has seized cryptocurrency belonging to ransomware operators before, the recovery of the Colonial Pipeline ransom was the task force’s first major operation,
$350 million; up 300% - but this is our first, and we did it in hours…
this whole thing is pretty ridic
i am so old that unless arrests were made, there wouldn't be a ballyhoo presser
and it would seem that if the path to the wallet involved a pseudonym carelessly left on a U.S. server by a feckless Russki hacker, there should be an arrest before you blew the lid off the "investigation"