Bitcoin Address Of DarkSide Hackers Used To Collect Ransom Tracked.
2021-05-18 | Eddy Morgan
Blockchain sleuthing firm Crystal Blockchain has revealed that
it has located the Bitcoin [
BTC, -2.56%] address that DarkSide hackers
use to collect ransom from the Colonial Pipeline.
Unlike within the existing traditional finance, with public blockchains, every transaction leaves a trace.
that gives rare visibility into
the cash movements of the cybercriminal ecosystem.
Earlier last week, Colonial Pipeline halted
operations for 6 days, prompting a gas shortage crisis across the Southeastern United States, after hackers, believed to be situated in Russia, hit it with a cyberattack, encrypting the company’s data. Earlier on 8
th May, Colonial Pipeline agreed to pay 75 BTC [
or about $5 Mln] to the attackers
and shortly after was able to resume work.
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic
added within an official web blog post last week that it had identified DarkSide’s wallet addresses, but didn’t disclose the addresses themselves. Consistent with Crystal Blockchain, a subsidiary of Bitfury, a security and infrastructure provider for the Bitcoin blockchain, the address that received the ransom is
bc1q7eqww9dmm9p48hx5yz5gcvmncu65w43wfytpsf.
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