THELOGICALINDIAN - The FBI has recovered added than bisected of the Bitcoin bribe paid out to the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attackers
U.S. admiral accept appear the acknowledged accretion of added than bisected of the bribe paid out in Bitcoin to the Colonial Pipeline attackers. The FBI believes the hackers are affiliated to Russia-based ransomware accumulation DarkSide.
Colonial Pipeline Ransom Recovered
The U.S. has bedeviled the Colonial Pipeline hackers’ Bitcoin.
The Dept of Amends (DoJ) announced that added than bisected of the $4.4 actor ransom paid out to Colonial Pipeline to ransomware attackers had been recovered Monday.
The Colonial Pipeline adventure bedridden the southern U.S. states and acquired huge disruption due to gas shortages. Biden alleged a accompaniment of emergency afterward the events. The FBI assured that a accumulation affiliated to DarkSide, a Russian accumulation of hackers accepted for ransomware attacks, was responsible.
Since then, the DoJ has appear that it would accord the aforementioned antecedence akin to ransomware as it does to agitation in the future. The anew created Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force will alike the acknowledgment to all ransomware and cyberattacks in the country from Washington.
The account that the FBI had recovered Bitcoin beatific abhorrence in the markets, with some assertive that the account could drudge the Bitcoin network. In fact, the FBI agents managed to use a block charlatan to clue the affairs and amount out the accessible abode area the ransomed Bitcoin was stored. The FBI again acclimated a accreditation to affirmation the 63.7 BTC in that abode to the barter or babysitter autumn the Bitcoin.
The on-chain Bitcoin abode affiliated to the Colonial Pipeline bribe wasn’t hacked. Once the FBI ample out the accessible key by allegory on-chain data, it affiliated that accessible key to a assertive custodian. The babysitter for the abode was asked to allotment the clandestine key. As the accepted crypto adage goes: “not your keys, not your Bitcoin.”
Disclaimer: The columnist captivated ETH and several added cryptocurrencies at the time of writing.
