DarkSide, the hacker group that recently launched a ransomware attack on U.S. fuel pipeline company Colonial Pipeline, received a total of To the $90 million bitcoin ransom.
Recently, DarkSide attacked Colonial Pipeline, the largest U.S. fuel pipeline company, causing its transportation pipeline to be closed for several days. Ultimately, the company paid DarkSide a $5 million cryptocurrency ransom.
Affected by this incident, DarkSide announced that the team plans to disband. It is understood that this is because the group lost access to its operational structure under pressure from law enforcement agencies.
Although the black group has disbanded, blockchain analysis firm Elicipat said on Friday that it had identified the group's cryptocurrency accounts and had at least $90 million worth of bitcoin in its accounts before disbanding.
Elicipat said on Tuesday that DarkSide and its affiliate received at least $90 million in bitcoin ransoms from 47 different cryptocurrency accounts over the past 39 months. On average, each victim paid $1.9 million worth of bitcoin.
Of the $90 million ransom, $15.5 million went to DarkSide's developers and $74.7 million to its affiliates. Most of these are transferred to cryptocurrency exchanges where they are exchanged for fiat .
However, there are still $5.3 million worth of cryptocurrencies in DarkSide's cryptocurrency accounts that have not been transferred in time, and these cryptocurrencies may have been seized by U.S. law enforcement agencies .
It is worth mentioning that Colonial Pipeline is only one of the companies that has been attacked by DarkSide recently. A division of Toshiba's in France said it was also attacked by the hacker group and 740GB of data were stolen. In addition, Ireland's healthcare service was also attacked by ransomware.
Source: Sina.com
