Sketchy doesn’t begin to describe this DOJ narrative.
According to their press release the DOJ seized 63.7 Bitcoin (digital currency) through accessing a server in North Carolina used to enter the Bitcoin wallet password of the original hackers. However, the DOJ still claims the “hackers” were sophisticated Russian operatives. Meaning the “Russian Hackers” were so sophisticated they could hack a major gas pipeline, but not sophisticated enough to protect their wallet and hosted it online on a US based server?
DOJ […] approximately 63.7 bitcoins, representing the proceeds of the victim’s ransom payment, had been transferred to a specific address, for which the FBI has the “private key,” or the rough equivalent of a password needed to access assets accessible from the specific Bitcoin address. (read more)
Doesn’t this seem like either the private key wasn’t private, or the FBI was the original hacker of the pipeline?
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced that it has seized 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at approximately $2.3 million. These funds allegedly represent the proceeds of a May 8, ransom payment to individuals in a group known as DarkSide, which had targeted Colonial Pipeline, resulting in critical infrastructure being taken out of operation. The seizure warrant was authorized earlier today by the Honorable Laurel Beeler, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California.
“Following the money remains one of the most basic, yet powerful tools we have,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco for the U.S. Department of Justice. “Ransom payments are the fuel that propels the digital extortion engine, and today’s announcement demonstrates that the United States will use all available tools to make these attacks more costly and less profitable for criminal enterprises. We will continue to target the entire ransomware ecosystem to disrupt and deter these attacks. Today’s announcements also demonstrate the value of early notification to law enforcement; we thank Colonial Pipeline for quickly notifying the FBI when they learned that they were targeted by DarkSide.”
“There is no place beyond the reach of the FBI to conceal illicit funds that will prevent us from imposing risk and consequences upon malicious cyber actors,” said FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate. “We will continue to use all of our available resources and leverage our domestic and international partnerships to disrupt ransomware attacks and protect our private sector partners and the American public.” (full press release)
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Ad Rem, we have a cleanup here please. Make this go away.
Music videos belong on the OPEN…
LOL … that’s funny. I like that he makes sure his girlfriend’s name is on there as the director too so you know she’s ok with the chick.
Suspicious Cat’s eyes just swiveled so far it’s optic nerves now form a spiral.
I mean: the Spygate co-conspirators say what? The FBLies is just sooo believable …
Tired of the constant lies.
The FBI can’t seem to protect my phone from phone scammers calling me from fake numbers and even using my number as an apparent originating number through trickery.
Heck, the FBI can’t even tell the difference between a fake dossier comprised of gossip and innuendoes and real evidence.
fedgov sets fire…fedgov puts out fire…fedgov declares itself hero.
Medals are struck. Hurray for fedgov.
What happened to San Jose disgruntled shooter guy?
Remember Boulder disgruntled shooter guy?
Beginning to think of 0bama as FedGuv Guy!
Media reporting to be used For warrants and prosecutions at a later date.
Meat prices? Someone help me here. I thought I read , recently, another ‘hacking’ was discovered concerning a food/meat distribution company. As to infer that rising food prices may be the result of “hackers”. I cannot remember the source.
Fed Gov put in tiny woman that is almost swallowed by the podium to give announcement. I am assuming the 6’5″ lanky white guy is there on the side to represent “the long arm of the law”. They should have at least gotten a couple of Homer buckets for her to stand on.
That would have been ableist. ?
….and where are the face diapers?
Watch out for the little ‘uns……they can be mean girls to counteract their size. I know because I am one.
Don’t forget: fedgov launders itself 2.8 million bucks in dark money it had laying around.
Pro-tip – we know how these things work. We don’t play the game, we wrote the game.
How enjoyable.
And what about J.B.S. ?
Seems odd to announce this if working on that , no ?
There is no doubt in my mind that the hackers were our own DOJ. And, that any more hacks that will be done in the next months will be our own. They have already warned us it will happen. These traitors are taking us down.
I suspect the CIA, and they just gave the DOJ their cut. They are both criminal organizations.
No! Gina Haspel is AWESOME!!!
Mean it, like Hillary levels of AWESOME!!!
We are a banana Republic.
You mean we got a promotion ?
Sure. The US used to only be a Date Palm Republic. Which is better than a Maple Syrup Monarchy like Canada.
My intuition says—has been saying from the beginning—that this was an elaborate political shake-down, masquerading as a “Russian hack.” This story breathes new life into that intuition.
These corrupt Deep Staters are one-trick ponies, but they’re going to keep playing their one trick gig since it’s working for them.
Russia is code for CIA these days
Don’t forget to give 10% to the Big Guy…like really? This is the best cover story they could come up with??? I guess the internet is telling the truth…the left can’t meme.
“When told of the recovery, President Biden ordered the bitcoins converted to a pallet of cash and had it flown by the Air Force to Russia as payment to prevent further cyber attacks.” //S//
There will be provisions in the infrastructure bill to fix all of this. That bill will be full of crap.
It’s good to be suspicious. I saw this earlier today across several news sites and immediately got the same hugely questionable vibes as our host has apparently received. They allegedly recovered “nearly all” of the ransom money?
There are several possibilities here.
What? The DOJ didn’t have to ask Apple for help breaking the encryption? By now, one would think that anybody who wanted to pull a ransom attack with payment in crypto would use an Apple product. Apple refused to help the FBI with the phones used by the San Bernardino shooters and the shooter at the Navy Air Base in Florida.
Apple puts on a good show. They are still in the fbi’s pocket, rest assured.
“They allegedly recovered “nearly all” of the ransom money?”………………….
Well, yeah…..nearly all of it. Minus the 3.3% service charge, and a few other built in gratuities.
“And Thank You for doing business with Government.gov, your friendly neighborhood
hack, umm, bank.”OR…
The US government, in an effort to appear anything but feeble, bought 63.7 Bitcoin and are just saying they recovered the ransom. Or maybe they didn’t buy anything and they are just saying they recovered it?
They lie so much already, who’s to say this one isn’t a lie?
Today some unsuspecting American citizen (innocent) is waking up and wondering what the hell happened to his 63.7 in bitcoin savings.
I really hope the CIA/FBI is that dumb that they think we can’t see through this. ONE DAY, hopefully soon, it will be their downfall.
Fbis engaged in shennanigans? Hackers = fbis. Same crooks.
DOJ ? FBI ? How about a $3 bill ? It’s all the same thing.
“Doesn’t this seem like either the private key wasn’t private, or the FBI was the original hacker of the pipeline?”
Add a third, MOST LIKELY alternative:
BECAUSE our administration lacks the testicular fortitude necessary to tell Putin to either rein in the people responsible, or face severe military response, AND because they now realize that the American public is beginning to hold our feckless leaders RESPONSIBLE for the economic repercussions from the pipeline and beef processing hacks, the FBI is CLAIMING to have recovered this money.
But these claims are BS. They haven’t RECOVERED a dime. They’re LYING to save face, and to reassure the American public that progress is being made.
Or fourth:
It was the super secret Russian cell based in North Carolina (because they like vinegar based bbq)
On second thought, I’ll go with option 2 for $500 Alex, but definitely could be option 3.
Those crazy North Carolinians. First, they’re hosting Chinese scientists doing gain of function research. Now, they’re hosting Russian Hackers. And so conveniently drivable from DC, yet still “out of state”.
The good news about the FBLies, is while they are liars, political partisans and totally evil, they are also monumentally incompetent.
Vegas didn’t work out. Mueller failed. The muslim terrorists they drove to the art competition were gunned down at the gate. And Nashville blew up in their sorry faces. (Those drivel monkeys still haven’t worked out how their patsy caused the first blast inside the AT&T facility).
This is what happens when you only hire Vindmans.
And just like that …….
Dr Fauci was bumped from top story
Hopefully, Putin will remind the world of Faux Xi when he meets with the Resident.
Maybe. But only in the feeble brains of those who only know how to turn on their local TV news channel for “information”…
I think the rubes are getting suspicious with all this Russia, Russia, Russia. We need a new very white enemy for the next take down of an important industry that has been resistant to the Green New Deal and Great Reset. Australians tan. No good. Belgians have those tasty waffles, IHOP may resist. I’m thinking Norwegians are VERY tall and very white. So tall! So white! Ahhhhhhhhh….yes. We’ll time the Norwegian drone attack on My Pillow with mandatory federal CRT struggle sessions and anyone who complains goes to the Kamala border cages where no reporter will even admit they ever existed.
Wait, how do I get my million dollar cut? Get me a rewrite and insert the extortion please! These FIB shows do not write themselves, people.
And NOBODY has more white privilege than Norwegians.
Well now, if it’s really the case where the fbi can pull bitcoins outta the ether at will, I’ll expect tomorrow night’s headlines
saying how they yanked all the cartels’ ill-gotten billions down to the tune of say, I don’t know, $100 billion?
There’s no doubt global criminal organizations have exchanged billions into untraceable crypto currency. What’s stopping
the fumbling brigade of idiots from snatching it? At will. Anytime they want.
It would be more believable if they claimed the Russian Hackers had buried the Bitcoins in a chest in their backyard and they use specially trained K-9 units to sniff them out
If this story is true, the hackers should have stored the bitcoin on Hunter’s hard drive. It could be sitting on the table and the FBI would tell you it doesn’t exist.
Answered Seneca’s Julian Assange question, but alas, sent me straight to the trash bin again.
But it does feel a bit more like home now, with the new recliner you brought in for me, tyvm!
Biden’s Deep State FBI did it to punish the people who needed the oil
I think it hurt the DC neighborhoods the most, so maybe it backfired politically.
Let’s see. BTC for criminal activity, money laundering, cartel/drug money, check. U.S. wants to regulate and control. Check. Hurting everyday Americans. Check. Evil Russia. Check. And perfectly delivered by CNN. That sure is one neat and tidy investigation.
Likely scenario, the digital wallet belongs to the FBI and is used in undercover and money laundering investigations.
The seizure warrant is just a “cover”, all part of a rather amateurish u/c operation.
Most likely the ransom payment was bureau/DOJ undercover funds ( not Colonials ) that was placed in the FBI undercover BTC node or FBI undercover digital wallet
The ransom was being transferred out in small amounts to the perps and during the “email” communications, the FBI was trying to lure them to a meet via some “ruse” or use some other means to identify the perps.
The case was shut down when half the funds were gone.
No arrests were made. Investigation remains open. Impossible now to FOIA
Our government has evolved into a grotesque monster. We are the evil empire.
I’m going with an alphabet agency mock up attack with a mock “we fixed it” claim..
Just putting this out there. I know some people don’t put much stock in a lot of what is posted there, but with all that is being exposed these days, quite a bit of the tin foil hat stuff is getting to be credible. Anyway, it will be interesting to at least keep this in mind, just in case it proves to be true…
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cyber-polygon-will-next-globalist-war-game-lead-another-convenient-catastrophe
We would be far better served to take out the trash now, hang anyone remotely suspect and let God sort the angels from the demons. This is not going to end well if we let it continue and it is accelerating, exponentially.
I’m stocked, locked and loaded but there are literally millions of Americans who can’t go 3 days without a trip to the grocery store. We’ve already got supply chain issues and it’s only going to get worse. I guess when people start to die, then someone will notice? Of course by then it will be too late for all but the most prepared.
Get you TP soon, before the stores are all out again.
Just like the scripted blast in Nashville this is another script.
The pipeline hack and meat company hack were done by people who can leave the fingerprints of anyone they like and it’s amazing the amount of intrusion into the infrastructure since it Osama took over
WeMeantWell.com
Reporters joke the easiest job in Washington is CIA spokesman. You need only listen carefully to questions and say “No comment’ before heading to Happy Hour. The joke, however, is on us. The reporters pretend to see only one side of the CIA, the passive hiding of information about itself. They meanwhile choose to profit from the other side of the equation, active information operations designed to influence events in America. It is 2021 and the CIA is running an op against the American people.
Seeing decades of success abroad in using info ops, the CIA and others turned those weapons inward.
It is 2021 and the CIA is running an op against the American people.
Like they have been doing for the last 80 years
But now the CIA is complicit with the Main Slime Media
You called this from the beginning. They aren’t even that clever. Bitcoin enthusiasts should be calling BS too. You should have added Suspicious Cat . . . .
Yea. Ok. They also said Trump colluded with Russia and committed an impeachable offense in Ukraine. So they are about as trustworthy as the Russian mob at this point. A bunch of political hacks working towards the destruction of the Republic with the rest of the globalist insurgents.
Zero Hedge also has a good article about the Dept. of No Justice seizing Bitcoin. Sundance says it’s sketchy, so does Zero Hedge
We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.
–William Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987
Disband the FBI and CIA. Both are just arms of the fascist Democrat party.
Were these the Russian hackers from Beijing or the Russian hackers from Langley?
Likely one or the other, but don’t rule out Russian hackers from the Pentagon.
I would imagine bitcoin is getting hammered. I wonder of Soros shorted it with 10% for the “Big Guy”.
Show me proof the DOJ actually recovered anything, and if so exactly how much!
According to London-based blockchain analytics firm Elliptic;
“Elliptic said that DarkSide’s bitcoin wallet contained $5.3 million worth of the digital currency before its funds were drained last week. There was some speculation that this bitcoin had been seized by the U.S. government.” (Browne, R., 2021, Para. 7).
(Browne, R., 2021, Hackers behind Colonial Pipeline attack reportedly received $90 million in bitcoin before shutting down). Retrieved from Colonial Pipeline hackers Darkside received $90 million in bitcoin: Report (cnbc.com)
So either they didn’t recover anything, they recovered less than half, or they’re lying about how much they did recover and pocketing the rest!
I’ll sleep better tonight knowing our illustrious DOJ is on the case. Snarc/off
That being the case, it must be raining money in DC.
It’s okay to lie because the choice is between the American people and 0bama, and the DC Swamp has made its choice.
Just curious why the DOJ couldn’t track these people down much earlier when they were hitting a number of smaller entities?
Not only can they track hackers down quickly, but track where their cyber money is and seize it.
Meanwhile, Durham is still employed. At something.
Kinda makes you wonder who got the other $2 mil.
well we’ll know in a few weeks if the cable news networks keep treating their 50,000 nightly viewers to endless hack bait scenarios,… that its more chaff to divert from the election fraud they helped out with.
If you pull the tassel on the flag the tall guy on the left says, “You rang?”
Leftists hate those climate changing entities, oil and cows. DOJ/IC do their bidding. What’s the next cyber attack hoax that supports the Democommunist narrative and agenda ?
There are just so many different aspects of this whole episode that make no sense. Starting with the supposed amount of ransom paid verses the amount recovered. The one thing though I haven’t seen anyone bring up though is the steep sell off in the price of Bitcoin since the ransom was paid.
I guess the Whitmer kidnap plan, singing exploding RV, various and sundry pasty white mass shooters and JSB cyberhack, et al were unsatisfying. The alphabets never fail to disappoint. Maybe Hollywood can do a movie on them. There’s a role for Harvey in there somewhere.
The FBI heard the old joke about the loyal Russian factory worker who said “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us”!
Sorry, but this smells.
Look at them. They can’t say three words without looking back at the SCRIPT. See how nervous and unintelligent they all are. Ever noticed how a liar looks when they’re lying? Jellyfish.
I don’t trust the DOJ or FBI. Anyway to verify this. Nope. Must be propaganda.
FBLies