Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta...
by dstroot on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:28PM
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This is the most puzzling part of the story. These guys were evidently pretty skilled. I can see their servers being seized but I am struggling to figure out how they lost their currency. Did the Kremlin put a gun to their head and say “unlock the wallet”? This seems especially fishy.
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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta...
by dleslie on Friday May 14, 2021 @06:52PM
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> Did the Kremlin put a gun to their head and say “unlock the wallet”?
You ask that like it seems implausible. To me, given what we know, it sounds light-handed for them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/europe/russia-chech...
Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta...
by tinus_hn on Saturday May 15, 2021 @08:22AM
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It takes less skill than you might imagine to buy ransomware on the black market and deploy it. You don’t need to write it yourself, you just need to handle the extortion side of things.
Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta...
by bolasanibk on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:48PM
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I can see plenty of governments doing exactly that.