{"id":14193,"date":"2021-10-25T13:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=14193"},"modified":"2021-11-26T22:02:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T03:02:17","slug":"darkside-moves-7-million-worth-of-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/darkside-moves-7-million-worth-of-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"DarkSide moves $7 million worth of Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\">The CEO and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Profero, Omri Segev Moyal, announced that 107 bitcoins from a DarkSide wallet were recently moved to new wallets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">The group also stated that the funds were moved via small transactions to make it more difficult to track the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">While screenshots shared by Moyal showed that transactions began at 7.05am GMT on October 21, 2021, with the initial value pegged at just under $7 million, blockchain analytics firm Elliptic revealed the process by which DarkSide Bitcoin moved through different wallets shrinking from 107.8 BTC to 38.1 BTC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">They also noted that while the action pointed to a typical money laundering technique used by criminals to prevent prosecution, such actions continued with small amounts of money that are said to have already been transferred to known exchanges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1\">For many, this may be a tactical plan by DarkSide, after it was revealed that REvil ransomware operations ceased after the gang&#8217;s hidden Tor service was hijacked during an international law enforcement operation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/darkside-ransomware-rushes-to-cash-out-7-million-in-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Bleeping Computer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO and co-founder of cybersecurity firm Profero, Omri Segev Moyal, announced that 107 bitcoins from a DarkSide wallet were recently moved to new wallets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-14193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todays-news","tag-bitcoin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14196,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions\/14196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}