THELOGICALINDIAN - The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has bedeviled bitcoin account added than 22 actor angry to ransomware payments The cryptocurrency allegedly belongs to an associate of Gandcrab and RevilSodinokibi ransomware
US Seizes Bitcoin Worth Over $2 Million
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized about 40 bitcoins from a Russian citizen angry to Revil and Gandcrab ransomware, according to a cloister certificate apparent Tuesday. The damage complaint reads:
At the time of writing, the bulk of bitcoin is about $56,318.06 based on abstracts from Bitcoin.com Markets. The bulk bedeviled totals about $2.247 million.
The admission took abode on Aug. 3. While the FBI did not acknowledge how it acquired admission to the wallet, the cloister certificate explains that the wallet independent Revil bribe payments acceptance to an associate articular as Aleksandr Sikerin (aka Alexander Sikerin and Oleksandr Sikerin), whose email abode is [email protected].
According to Bleeping Computer, the name “engfog” in the email abode is angry to a acclaimed Gandcrab and Revil/Sodinokibi associate accepted as “Lalartu.”
Gandcrab and Revil organizations operated as Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), area amount operators accomplice with third-party hackers, accepted as affiliates, the account aperture noted, abacus that bribe payments are breach amid the associate and amount operators. The operators usually acquire amid 20% and 30% of the ransom.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had bedeviled $6.1 actor from Yevgeniy Polyanin, a Russian “charged with deploying Sodinokibi/Revil ransomware to advance businesses and government entities in the United States.”
Meanwhile, the U.S. government has been accretion its efforts to action ransomware attacks. The Treasury Department has already sanctioned two cryptocurrency exchanges angry to bribe payments.
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