FBI confiscates Bitcoin worth more than $ 2.2 million from Ransomware partner-News
FBI confiscates Bitcoin worth more than $ 2.2 million from Ransomware partner-News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confiscated Bitcoin worth more than $ 2.2 million in connection with ransomware payments. The cryptocurrency allegedly belongs to a subsidiary of Gandcrab and Revil/Sodinokibi-Ransomware.
USA confiscated Bitcoin worth over $ 2 million
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confiscated Almost 40 bitcoins from a Russian resident who is connected to the Ransomware Revil and Gandcrab emerges from a court document that was sealed on Tuesday. The contracting complaint is:
The United States submit this verified real lawsuit against 39,89138522 Bitcoin, which have been confiscated from the Exodus letter bag ... which are now in the care and administration of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Dallas Division.
At the time of writing, the Bitcoin Prize based on data from Bitcoin.com Markets is around $ 56,318.06. The confiscated amount amounts to almost $ 2.247 million.
The confiscation took place on August 3. While the FBI did not reveal how it had reached the wallet, the court document explains that the wallet contained ransom payments from Revil, who, as Aleksandr Sikerin (aka Alexander Sikerin and Oleksandr Sikerin), belonged. , whose email address Engfog137@gmail.com is.
According to Bleeping Computer, the name "Engfog" is bound to a well-known Gandcrab and Revil/Sodinokibi subsidiary called "Lalartu" in the email address.
The organizations of Gandcrab and Revil worked as a ransomware-as-a-service (RAAS), in which core operators work together with hackers of third-party providers, the so-called affiliates, the news agency and added that ransom payments are divided between the affiliate and the core operators. The operators usually earn between 20 and 30 % of the ransom.
At the beginning of this month, the US Justice Ministry (doj) US dollar from Yevgeniy Polyanin had confiscated a Russian who "is charged with the use of Sodinokibi/Revil-Ransomware to attack companies and government agencies in the United States".
In the meantime, the US government increases its efforts to combat ransomware attacks. The Ministry of Finance has already sanctioned two cryptocurrency exchanges that bound to ransom payments are.What do you think that the FBI Bitcoin confiscates in connection with ransomware attacks? Let us know in the comment area below.
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