It sure would be easy to "turn the tables" on Darkside if the "partnership" was actually with NSA Spooks masquerading as "Russian Hackers" Orchestrating the entire operation.
It would also explain the FBI "possession" of the Private Key to the Hackers Bitcoin Wallet
It’s all explained here:
https://www.elliptic.co/blog/elliptic-follows-bitcoin-ransoms-paid-by-darkside-ransomware-victims
I wonder how many of the cryptocurrencies are actually money traps set up by national intelligence agencies.
NO WAY the FIBBERS did this so quickly.
We're NOT STUPID OUT HERE!
Stay safe, stay offline, don’t use your device in public, don’t even look at that device...and we’ll get them with an online warrant!
Only you can help curb the cyber pandemic!
If this is all true, then this could well be Black Monday for all cryptos.
Money Lauderers everywhere will take note of this and send BITC reeling....
So that was someone else’s first thought, too.
So, like...
No warrant?
No judgment?
Just...took it?
I guess the people they took it from could file a complaint. But that would make this whole a spade rather “counterproductive.”
And just like that democrats and their propagandists are telling us this proves there is no alternate be but to pass the massive Biden pork bills. And so much for bitcoin being the free new monetary system free of the government.
FALSE FLAG!!!
So companies should beg to pay hacker ransom in bitcoin:
The DOJ will find it and return it in 4-7 days
They found a few millions “untraceable” bitcoin faster than the $35 trillion in “accounting adjustments” at the Pentagon
They managed to find it rather quickly, as well as decided that the “hackers” were based in Russia the same week it happened.
This story is Bull $hit.
It’s for people that do not understand how private keys work.
Hint they are not online.
Most likely 4 out of 5 of the 'hackers' were actually FBI.
This type of thing has been going on for 30 years and finally now the FBI does something?
Probably only to protect Plugs and the Ho
I would imagine that the government does host “full nodes” for Bitcoin and other crypto - it would make sense from a law enforcement/intel perspective since these are the nodes that validate all transactions and keep full databases of the blockchain.
Nothing to back this up, but I often wonder if Uncle Sam or another government wasn’t the one who came up with it in the first place - since despite what people say about its security, crypto is much easier to track than cash.
The Feds are trying to sell the public the most ridiculous story ever.
They want the public to believe that the hackers were sophisticated enough to shutdown U.S. pipeline, but at the very same time so dumb to sent it to a U.S. Centralized Crypto Currency Exchange that requires a ID and background check (aka KYC-AML) to store that amount of Bitcoin in it.
This is the equivalent of terrorists getting paid a ransom and then depositing it into their checking account at the biggest public bank.
What this tells us is the people that came up with this ridiculous story do not understand some of the most basic understandings of holding crypto currency.
“All your bitcoin are belong to us.”
Ha... I’m not buying this from the same media that insisted for four years that DJT was a Russian operative.
Impossible to hack a 64 character key.
105 312 291 668 557 186 697 918 027 683 670 432 318 895 095 400 549 111 254 310 997 536
possible combinations if my math is correct. Unless they used a passphrase that was leaked, which professional hackers don’t do.
I believe this is just propaganda from our Marxist leaders to harm cryptocurrencies and make the FBI/Biden admin look competent.
FBI can do this and they can’t
1. Determine OBama’s school records, birth cert. etc.
2. Can’t determine if there was massive fraud in the 2020 election.
3. Can’t determine early on, the obvious that there was no Russian collusion with Trump before during or after the election of 2016.
I’ll suspend judgment. FBI doing its job? Actually catching the bad guys and getting the money back? Something doesn’t fit.
It would also explain the FBI "possession" of the Private Key to the Hackers Bitcoin Wallet"
Not so sure about that.
Occam's suggests Mandiant was contacted before the ransom was paid, and they, in conjunction with alphabets, poisoned the wallet.
"You want your money? Here is a ransom wallet and n/p." If you could root that and make the bad guy believe it was legit all the way to their blockchain transfer to their own wallet or attempt a transaction .... boom.
Instead of paying Yung Fat Heartattack, Colonial paid a fraction of that money to a serious US 3rd-party IT security team, who in addition to participating in poisoning the wallet, likely also built a new, secure network for Colonial.
Note that the alphabets also disgronified Darkside to the point where they have gone all-in on distributing these attacks now, rather than their prior piecemeal revenue stream approach, figuring not everyone can afford Mandiant or are mission-critical enough to pull alphabet weight.
However, we still have reached a tipping point where, instead of these stupid ransomware victims paying up because their water-brained IT guy panics, are now aware that the price point is much lower to have a small, state-of-the-art IT security team simply poison the wallet, while mirroring the network you had, with the security you were lacking.