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That is one of a few good points John. Getting to the money doesn't shut down the actors, it only inconveniences them. Hell, with the technology available via botnets (people's home computers infected with malware that makes them part of a super-computing engine to drive the attacks and...

Scott, the article John provided indicates they were paid in Bitcoin, and that the DOJ managed to get their private key for it (would like to hear how that occurred, hmmmm) and recovered what was in the "wallet". So getting the money back is one thing, shutting down the actors is another.

I've been tied up the last few days, so I missed this thread update. John is mostly correct in his assertions, as is Marc. The way the ransomware is propogated, the Aholes who host it do everything to conceal/provide false trails to it's origin. In many cases, they claim "Russian hackers", even...