DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

Re:DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware... by walrus01 on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:25PM (#27428035)

I am by far no ransomware expert, but it really seems like amateur hour if they were running a Linux based Bitcoin full node using the mainline CLI daemon and client, with a wallet, on some hosting company geographically within the United States. Why would it need to be in the US?

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Re:DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware... by staticassertion on Monday June 07, 2021 @07:11PM (#27428529)

I only know a few criminal hackers, but within that sample their skillset is really niche. They know what they know well, but otherwise they're just trying to solve problems like any engineer.

Kinda like data scientists - they can be masters with a couple of libraries and concepts, but if you have a data science team you also are more or less guaranteed to have a jupyter notebook open to the world, or something along those lines.

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Re:DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware... by partyboy on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:35PM (#27428150)

Don't underestimate the stupidity/incompetence of these ransomware devs. Many cybercriminals have been caught for unbelievably dumb reasons.

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