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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
by dstroot 5y ago
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.
- bolasanibk 5y agoI can see plenty of governments doing exactly that. https://xkcd.com/538/ https://xkcd.com/538/
- dleslie 5y ago> 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-chechnya-caucasus-terrorists-families.html https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/world/europe/russia-chech...
- tinus_hn 5y agoIt 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.