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How North Korea Launders Billions in Stolen Crypto (www.coindesk.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

These agencies are sometimes able to retrieve stolen funds. In the case of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) was eventually able to recover almost 85% of the bitcoin (BTC) ransom paid to Russian cybercriminal group Darkside. It’s unclear how investigators obtained the hacking group’s private keys.

Probably the old-fashioned way

the XKCD with the wrench

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

IRL brute force

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yet more proof that crypto is only good for criminals

[–] sugar_in_your_tea -1 points 1 hour ago

? Does that imply cash is only good for criminals? Because there's a lot more money laundering w/ cash than crypto...