DOJ's Colonial Pipeline presser appears ready to start.
Lisa Monaco: "The Department of Justice is announcing a significant development in the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline."
Monaco: "The sophisticated use of technology to hold businesses, and even whole cities hostage for profit is decidedly a 21st century, challenge, but the old adage, follow the money still applies. And that's exactly what we do."
Monaco: "After colonial pipelines quick notification to law enforcement and pursuant to a seizure warrant...the Department of Justice has found and recaptured the majority of the ransom Colonial paid to the DarkSide network in the wake of last month's ransomware attack "
Paul Abbate: "Today, the FBI successfully sees criminal proceeds from a Bitcoin wallet that dark side ransomware actor is used to collect a cyber ransom payment from a victim."
The press conference still hasn't been clear who, exactly, was served with the warrant.
Abbate: "Today we deprived, a cyber criminal enterprise of the object of their activity."
Stephanie Hinds: "New financial technologies that attempt to anonymize payments will not provide a curtain from behind which criminals will be permitted to pick the pockets of hardworking Americans. "
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