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Mueller indictment details Russian spy’s preference for Bitcoin

Brave New Coin 20 Jul 2018
“The Conspirators funded the purchase of computer infrastructure for their hacking activity in part by “mining” bitcoin….The pool of bitcoin generated from the GRU’s mining activity was used, for example, to pay a Romanian company to register the domain dcleaks.com through a payment processing company located in the United States.”....
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What We Learned About Russian and U.S. Spycraft From Mueller’s Indictment of Hackers

The Intercept 18 Jul 2018
For example, the indictment states the hackers used their freshly mined bitcoin to purchase dcleaks.com from a Romanian domain name registrar, and that a U.S.-based payment processing company was involved in the transaction ... investigators could have linked the pool of bitcoin that the Russians mined to DCLeaks via information from the domain ......
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Crypto Markets Rally as Bitcoin Moves Above $6,600 Mark: Week in Review July 16

BTC Manager 17 Jul 2018
According to the indictment, the group registered a “dcleaks.com” domain a month ... More to the point, the bitcoin mined by the Russian Assailants was used to “to pay a Romanian company to register the domain dcleaks.com through a payment processing company located in the United States,” according to the Grand Jury of Washington D.C.’s indictment....
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A deeper look into the role of Bitcoin [BTC] in the discovery of election manipulation ...

AMB Crypto 16 Jul 2018
The agents mined Bitcoin for the purchase of the domain, using the same wallet address to buy accounts, services and domains used in “election-related hacking activity” ... “The pool of bitcoin generated from the GRU’s mining activity was used, for example, to pay a Romanian company to register the domain dcleaks.com through a payment processing company located in the United States.”....
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The Dangers of Perceived Anonymity: Russian Hackers’ Bitcoin Trail

The Bitcoin News 16 Jul 2018
The hackers also bothered to diversify the sources from which they drew the money, from peer-to-peer deals to decentralized exchanges to running their own mining operation ... The DOJ investigators were also able to track the Bitcoin that the GRU mining rig produced all the way to the Romanian company that registered the dcleaks.com domain....
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Russian Intelligence Officers Mined Bitcoin To Fund Attacks Against U.S. Democracy

Bitcoinist 15 Jul 2018
However, the indictment points out, conspirators “principally used bitcoin when purchasing servers, registering domains, and otherwise making payments in furtherance of hacking activity.” ... According to the indictment, the conspirators used the Bitcoin generated from mining to pay a Romanian company to register the domain dcleaks.com through a payment processing company located in the United States....
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Russian Intelligence Officers Face Criminal Charges after Using Bitcoin to Infiltrate Hillary Clinton’s Election

BTC Manager 14 Jul 2018
More to the point, the bitcoin mined by the Russian Assailants was used to “to pay a Romanian company to register the domain dcleaks.com through a payment processing company located in the United States,” according to the Grand Jury of Washington D.C.’s indictment ... This funding structure supported their efforts to buy key accounts, servers, and domains.”....
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US indicts 12 Russian agents for hacking Hillary Clinton's campaign during 2016 presidential election

India TV 14 Jul 2018
This funding structure supported their efforts to buy key accounts, servers, and domains. For example, the same bitcoin mining operation that funded the registration payment for DCLeaks.com also funded the servers and domains used in the spearphishing campaign, the indictment said....
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12 Russians indicted for hacking into Democratic servers

BGR 14 Jul 2018
This funding structure supported their efforts to buy key accounts, servers, and domains. For example, the same bitcoin mining operation that funded the registration payment for DCLeaks.com also funded the servers and domains used in the spearphishing campaign, the indictment said....
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US DoJ Charges 12 Russian Officials With Cryptocurrency-Funded Elections ‘Interference’

The Bitcoin News 13 Jul 2018
The Russian officials allegedly then obtained “thousands of stolen emails and documents” that they released through the domain DCLeaks.com while promoting themselves as “American hacktivists.” ... The DoJ notes that the bitcoin mining activities that paid for the DCLeaks.com domain also funded the spearphishing attacks....
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Russian Operatives Allegedly Funded Their Hacking With Bitcoin During the 2016 Campaign

Slate 13 Jul 2018
The officers allegedly used cryptocurrency to purchase the servers and other equipment necessary for the email breaches, and even mined bitcoin to help fund their activities. For example, they used the mined bitcoin to register the domain dcleaks.com, where some of the stolen emails were published, and to lease the Malaysian server that hosted the website ... ....
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photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein answers a question after announcing that the office of special counsel Robert Mueller says a grand jury has charged 13 Russian nationals and several Russian entities, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, in Washington. The defendants are accused of violating U.S. criminal laws to interfere with American elections and the political process. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Russian Agents Used Bitcoin To Help Fund DNC Hack: US Department of Justice

WorldNews.com 13 Jul 2018
The 12 indicted Russian intelligence officials used the virtual currency to purchase servers, register domains, and make ... The indictment did not reveal all the evidence behind the charges but described how the hackers mined Bitcoin to pay a Romanian company to register the domain name "dcleaks.com" which they used to hide their Russian identities....
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Election report: Russian hackers’ currency of choice is Bitcoin

East Bay Times 13 Jul 2018
By Lily Katz . Bloomberg News ... New insights into Russian meddling in the U.S. election aren’t helping ... said Friday. The conspirators primarily used the virtual coins when buying servers, registering domains and making other payments related to the cyber breaches, according to the indictment ... companies ... said ... The group allegedly mined bitcoin to pay a Romanian company to register the domain “dcleaks.com,” for example ... said. ....
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