BeerGeek
Tree Numbnutz
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 reroute/disappear evidence trails) and other tech advances, the bad guys will always be 2-3 steps ahead of even the most secure of entities (and even more against the USA govt. in particular). The dark holes that moles/spies have to go down to get involved with the forums and dark internet sites where these people tend to congregate is a whole science unto itself. The fact that these morons actually appear to have identified themselves to their victims (and appear to have named their Bitcoin account similarly), appear to contribute to the attribution that DOJ "has something" on them.
Dammit, I'm a tree guy now, I left this crap behind for a lot of reasons....
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 reroute/disappear evidence trails) and other tech advances, the bad guys will always be 2-3 steps ahead of even the most secure of entities (and even more against the USA govt. in particular). The dark holes that moles/spies have to go down to get involved with the forums and dark internet sites where these people tend to congregate is a whole science unto itself. The fact that these morons actually appear to have identified themselves to their victims (and appear to have named their Bitcoin account similarly), appear to contribute to the attribution that DOJ "has something" on them.
Dammit, I'm a tree guy now, I left this crap behind for a lot of reasons....