‘FBI pwned me’: Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests — 200 crypto wallets frozen, 11000 domains seized, 14000 rouge accounts closed::An international law enforcement operation led by Britain’s National Crime Agency and the FBI has arrested and indicted members of the Lockbit ransomware gang, in an unprecedented police operation that has struck one of the world’s most notorious cybercrime gangs.

  • DingoBilly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    9 months ago

    But crypto is untraceable and can’t be frozen, it’s your money!

    Have my crypto bros led me astray? Is it all just a pyramid scheme? 😢

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      It’s not untraceable when your addresses are public so people can send you money, and if you want to exchange it for dollars you have to sell it somewhere - usually people even keep it on a public exchange which completely voids all of the benefits.
      Kinda like having a VPN where you publicly advertise what IP you use, what sites you visit, and keep a list of it all on your PC that the police get when they raid your home.

      VPN gives you privacy, and crypto is untraceable and cannot be frozen, but only if they are used right.

    • Hate@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      most cryptos are pseudonymous. so, nobody knows who you are until you inevitably tie that pseudonym back to yourself somehow. like if you attempt to cash out, or use that pseudonym (wallet) to pay for something that could be linked to your real identity.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      They probably mean accounts on exchanges.

      Kinda hard to lock a wallet u don’t have the seed for.

  • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
    517·
    9 months ago

    And two Russians were charged. It really took 10 countries working together to find 2 Russian hackers? Jfc

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        9 months ago

        That and the Russian gov doesn’t give a fuck. I await the episode of Darknet Diaries on these guys.

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      Reminds me of the difference between a pirate (the boat using kind) and a privateer - who was a pirate that didn’t attack anyone from their own country, so their government gave them the permission to do it.
      Russian and Chinese hackers are hard to pin down because they are beneficial to those governments, so you usually won’t get any help catching them.

      These two were caught in Poland and Ukraine. Had they still been in Russia, they would most likely never have been arrested.