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Re: Official says US seized cryptocurrency ransom paid to Colonial Pipeline hackers
by
matchi2011
on 08/06/2021, 17:19:28 UTC
According to this article they got the hacker's private key: https://californianewstimes.com/us-says-it-has-recovered-large-portion-of-colonial-pipeline-ransom/383269/
Unclear how, but it mentions some servers being seized, so maybe they got access to a physical device. Or perhaps they got malware onto the device or there was a cooperating exchange.

Really hard to say if they got the private key, but it is really weird if they try to hack back the hackers?

Servers doesn't contained private key, and I believed that the hackers will keep in somewhere safe. So it is really mind boggling, if governments has the ability to track and seized the ransom, then by all means they can get to anyone.

Anyhow, this is clearly an cyber war now against those group of hackers who is targeting, anything, from universities to hospitals to private companies to demand huge amount of money in bitcoins.

Very alarming indeed! if they can really do that and they are capable of trcking and chasing those illegal activities then they are more
capable in  tracking everyone.

Not to create anything but if so, it's also good as there's  a cyberwar between hackers and government specialist, the case of hacking
those known venue for hacking can be protected for good.