U.S. Seizes Share of Ransom From Hackers in Colonial Pipeline Attack
Investigators traced 75 Bitcoins worth more than $4 million through nearly two dozen cryptocurrency accounts.
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Investigators traced 75 Bitcoins worth more than $4 million through nearly two dozen cryptocurrency accounts.
Following an outage of the REvil - aka Sodinokibi - ransomware operation due to coordinated law enforcement efforts involving the U.S. and foreign partners, the
Russian hackers continue to hack U.S. companies. Next, will be government entities, maybe even our military arsenal. This should raise flags about our outdated infrastructure.
Armstrong Williams: Hackers showcase America’s vulnerabilities By Armstrong Williams 6 hours ago Armstrong Williams Among many claimed benefits, cryptocurrencies supposedly offer two significant benefits over fiat currencies: 1) autonomy and 2) discretion. This past week, the U.S. federal government took them both down. The U.S. Department of Justice issued a press statement that it had seized $2.3 million in cryptocurrency. The seizure was the result of the FBI’s Colonial Pipeline investigation. As a reminder, Colonial Pipeline, the U.S.’s largest pipeline for refined oil products...
Researchers discovered an unidentified malware that created a 1.2TB database of personal records stolen from 3.25 million PCs between 2018 and 2020.