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How North Korea Launders Billions in Stolen Crypto (www.coindesk.com)
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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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

[–] Etienne_Dahu@jlai.lu 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

IRL brute force

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, brute force. Since that's the original meaning of the term :)

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Et tu brute force