Charges And Pleas In Computer Crime Cases Involving Significant Cyber Attacks

Re:Charges And Pleas In Computer Crime Cases Involving Signi... by drefanzor on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:27PM (#15917837)

Last few lines state how assistance was provided by various regional and international agencies, and then goes on to list google, coinbase, cloudflare, etc. Interesting.

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Re:Charges And Pleas In Computer Crime Cases Involving Signi... by paxy on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:39PM (#15917927)

Coinbase is the surprising one to me, since it is the only one on the list that operates at the application rather than network level. And there's no mention of bitcoin theft anywhere in the report, just DDOS.

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Re:Charges And Pleas In Computer Crime Cases Involving Signi... by sophacles on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:43PM (#15917953)

Bitcoin payments in DDOS for hire, or extortion (as in we'll stop if you pay us). If they cashed out via coinbase, the authorities can find out who profited via the paper trail created.

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Re:Charges And Pleas In Computer Crime Cases Involving Signi... by meri_dian on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:43PM (#15917947)

He probably held his Bitcoin on coinbase.

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Re:Charges And Pleas In Computer Crime Cases Involving Signi... by gtirloni on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:34PM (#15917886)

Isn't that normal, desired and expected?

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