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

Post by dragonelite » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 11:29 AM UTC

erentz wrote: post #154

blhack wrote: post #150

I think that the people here speculating about the FBI and private keys are greatly overestimating the competency of these hackers. While it's possible this it he FBI flexing some muscle that they have a backdoor into bitcoin's hashing algorithm, what seems much more likely (to me) is: There is a more sophisticated hacking group which created this particular ransomware package. They sell this ransomware package to le…

I mean we know the hack wasn’t sophisticated at all. It seems to me the hackers are opportunists, scanning for vulnerabilities and weak VPNs. People are confusing grunt work with sophistication. They would’ve used ransomware against any target that they breached that they thought could pay. Too young or too stupid to think through the consequences. Thread below indicates what happened is they were incredibly naive an…

Post by dannyw » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 12:22 PM UTC

kolinko wrote: post #112

shiftpgdn wrote: post #50

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The US Judicial system which tries to flex its "unlimited" reach.

„ If sanctioned the US government could almost certainly 51% attack any given crypto and redirect funds to whoever they want” 51% attacks don’t allow for withdrawing funds from an account - only for rolling back recent transactions

Post by briefcomment » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 12:32 PM UTC

meowface wrote: post #209

briefcomment wrote: post #143

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Our "respected authorities" have been "predicting" this since last year [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=0DKRvS-C04o

I love viewing comment histories of people who write posts like the above. They're always fun.

Post by TZubiri » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 12:37 PM UTC

anonporridge wrote: post #207

h3cate wrote: post #185

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Completely agree but it could be perceived as a show of strength.

Still stupid. As soon as some entity reveals they have the power to crack one of these algorithms, everyone scrambles to migrate to something orders of magnitude harder. It's a weapon you'd only be able to use for maybe a few weeks or months before all the worthwhile targets immunize themselves against you. We already have quantum safe asymmetric cryptography, just no incentive to move fast to deploy it.

Post by TZubiri » Tue, Jun 08, 2021, 12:41 PM UTC

dragonwriter wrote: post #101

TZubiri wrote: post #95

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The connections need to pass through the US just once in order to give the US a chance to attack it. Since they created the internet, they have field advantage. It's almost impossible not to use a US based provider, it goes as deep as ipv4 distribution.

> The connections need to pass through the US just once in order to give the US a chance to attack it. Less than once if the US were, purely hypothetically , to have a well-funded foreign sigint operation that might cooperate with domestic law enforcement on priority issues.