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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has considered the price of Bitcoin as $2.2 million related to ransomware payments. Allegedly, the cryptocurrency belongs to affiliated companies of Gandcrab and Revil/Sodinokibi ransomware.

The U.S. seized Bitcoin price over 2 million U.S. dollars

According to unsealed court documents on Tuesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized nearly 40 bitcoins from a Russian resident linked to the Revil and Gandcrab ransomware. The content of the confiscated criticism is as follows:

The United States has made this proven criticism of the 39.89138522 Bitcoin taken from the Exodus wallet… The Bitcoin has now been settled and is kept and managed by the City Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

At the time of writing, the value of Bitcoin supported by Bitcoin.com Markets is approximately $56,318.06. The figures taken total nearly $2.247 million.

The seizure occurred on August 3.Although the FBI did not disclose but it obtained access to the folder, court documents explained that the folder contained the pleasure of paying ransoms by Revil to affiliates named Aleksandr Sikerin (aka Alexander Sikerin and Oleksandr Sikerin). The email address is [email protected].

According to Bleeping pc, the name “engfog” in the email address is related to the famous Gandcrab and Revil/Sodinokibi affiliates, called “Lalartu”.

The news media pointed out that the Gandcrab and Revil organizations operate in the form of ransomware as a service (RaaS). As long as the core operator cooperates with a third-party hacker (called an affiliate), the ransom can be distributed between the affiliate and the core operator Paid. Operators sometimes earn a ransom of 20% to 30%.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had taken $6.1 million from the Russian Yevgeniy Polyanin, who was “responsible for deploying Sodinokibi/Revil ransomware to attack businesses and government entities in the United States.”

At the same time, the US government has been stepping up efforts to combat ransomware attacks. The administration has approved 2 cryptocurrency exchanges related to the payment of ransoms.