US DOJ recovers more than half of ransomware payment of Colonial Pipeline hack

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In May this year, the United States fuel supplier Colonial Pipeline made a payment of $4.4 million in Bitcoins to DarkSide hacking group for freeing up its servers from the file-encrypting malware.   Now, the US Department of Justice has issued a media update stating that a majority of the ransom payment was recovered from […]

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