The Justice Department announced a bit of a win this week in the ongoing battle against state-sponsored ransomware campaigns – clawing back about half a million in cryptocurrency that had been paid as ransom to North Korean hackers.
WHY IT MATTERS
According to the DOJ report, the FBI filed a sealed seizure warrant for the $500 million or so, include ransom payments from healthcare providers in Kansas and Colorado, this past May.
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