Oh good the FBI recovered the Colonial Pipeline ransom by tracing the wallet. Ransomware is solved!
Narrator voice: ransomware was not solved.
Looks like ransomware operators are going to have to do more than, well, the barest minimum in order to protect the privacy of their payments.
I wonder if the Colonial hackers tried to protect the funds in that wallet, or if they just decided to let it go.
This sounds like some pretty sophisticated detective work. 
Maybe my sarcasm didn’t come across.
“We looked at the blockchain and saw that they just moved the money around in exact amounts and didn’t even try to hide what they were doing.”
This is like mounting the antlers of a buck on your wall, and then bragging that you hit it with your car.
Our secret blockchain tracing tool is… addition.
Some might call it “grossly incompetent”. I call it 8-dimensional chess.
https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1401996717394960389
Right now the entire Federal law enforcement community is high-fiving themselves and buying contracts to do blockchain tracing, on the assumption that they’ve actually found a sustainable approach that works against ransomware.
And yes, there it is. They’re going after “the entire ecosystem”. This is gonna go really great.
https://twitter.com/defensebaron/status/1401984548628467721
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