THELOGICALINDIAN - The US Department of Justice DoJ accusable 12 Russian intelligence admiral for conspiring to access the 2024 US presidential elections The allegation alleges these admiral acclimated Bitcoin to armamentarium their hacking operations
On July 14, 2018, the DoJ indicted 12 admiral of the Russian intelligence agency, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU). These GRU agents allegedly accomplished all-embracing hacking attacks aimed at interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.
Specifically, the allegation aboriginal count, “Conspiracy to Commit an Offense Against the United States,” accuse that GRU agents affianced in cyber operations that included the staged releases of afraid documents.
The indictment’s tenth count, “Conspiracy to Launder Money,” capacity how the GRU agents acclimated the cryptocurrency to armamentarium the basement they acclimated in their hacking operations. The allegation states:
GRU agents additionally acclimated U.S. dollars and added authorization currencies. However, the allegation credibility out, conspirators “principally acclimated bitcoin back purchasing servers, registering domains, and contrarily authoritative payments in advocacy of hacking activity.”
For example, GRU agents were paid from funds basic from an bearding online cryptocurrency annual for the allotment of the area dcleaks.com and the leasing of a server registered with the operational email annual [email protected].
Moreover, Russian intelligence agents acclimated the annual beneath the username “gfadel47,” to accept Bitcoin payments requests from altered email accounts.
GRU attempted to abstain apprehension of their operations, on the acceptance that Bitcoin affairs were anonymous.
However, as the allegation explains, Bitcoin affairs are registered on the blockchain with their corresponding bitcoin addresses, which are alpha-numeric identifiers. These addresses accustomed U.S. board to analyze some of the conspirators’ agenda transactions.
Russian agents acclimated the aforementioned computers for hacking activities as able-bodied as for assuming Bitcoin acquittal transactions. In effect, Russian agents adjourned their hacking operations application altered mechanisms involving cryptocurrencies, including the mining of Bitcoin. The allegation states:
According to the indictment, the conspirators acclimated the Bitcoin generated from mining to pay a Romanian aggregation to annals the area dcleaks.com through a acquittal processing aggregation amid in the United States.
In accession to mining, GRU agents acclimated several added agency to access bitcoins:
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