US State Prosecutor Paid Off Ransomware Hackers with Bitcoin

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While newer privacy-focused cryptocurrencies are already considered to be more secretive than Bitcoin, the first blockchain has kept its role as the payment method of choice for operations on the dark web. It seems that cyber criminals are only willing to accept bitcoin from their victims due to its wider availability and greater accessibility to the uninformed general public.

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Reports of individuals, corporations, banks and even hospitals falling victim to ransomware are nothing new these days, but now we learn that the office of ... (read more)