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An unknown hacker discovered 986 Bitcoin wallets controlled by the FSB, Foreign Intelligence Service, and military intelligence. He destroyed $300,000 worth of Bitcoin from them and then began
According to Ukrinform, this was reported by CoinDesk citing a report by Chainalysis on the case.
“To find the wallets of private services, the unknown person used a function that documents transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain,” said Chainalysis, an American company that deals with blockchain analysis and cryptocurrency transactions.
According to the company, the unknown person used a function that documents transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain to find wallets of secret services. This happened before the start of the war in Ukraine, and the hacker sent a message in Russian, saying that these wallets are used by special services to finance hacking operations.
“It is unknown whether this is the case, but the fact that third parties have previously linked the addresses of at least three of these wallets to Russia supports this claim,” Chainalysis said.
Two of these were related to the 2020 attack on the American IT company Solarwinds, which affected more than 200 organizations with customers around the world. In the US, this cyberattack is considered one of the most serious, which includes a number of US organizations, as well as NATO, the British government, the European Parliament, Microsoft, etc.
A third crypto wallet was used to pay for servers involved in a disinformation campaign during the 2016 US presidential election.
The hacker initially wanted to destroy the bitcoins in the wallets found, and with the help of the OP_RETURN function, which canceled previous transactions, he did so with $300,000 worth of cryptocurrencies. However, he started transferring bitcoins after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Chainalysis registered the cryptocurrency in wallets opened by the Ukrainian government to raise funds for the fight against Russian aggression.
According to the analysis, the hacker gained access to the crypto wallets of Russian special services with the help of “insider actions”, not as a result of hacking.
“Simply put, this person may have gotten into the structure of hackers working for Russia, or he could be an employee of the Russian special services who went over to the other side,” the report says.
As reported by Ukrinform, Prague City Hall servers were hacked on Thursday by a Russian hacker group.
Source: Ukrinform
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