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Re:The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $... by blackrock on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:30PM (#23693182)
What if all the hacking actually originated from America?

They just compromised a bunch of random computers in China and Russia, running an old copy of Windows XP, and built themselves a botnet.

What further evidence do you have, other than an IP address?

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Re:The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $... by andykx on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @12:56AM (#23697876)
Why just those two countries then? Why don’t I see a thousand get requests for /wp-login from countries all around the world? Wouldn’t that be significantly more effective since you can’t simply block a range of addresses to mitigate it?
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Re:The largest unknown Bitcoin wallet moved nearly $1B for $... by Klinky on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @02:58PM (#23693503)
Even if that was the case, China/Russia having a bunch of vulnerable computers being used as proxy botnets would still be alarming.
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