Not been a good week for the bad guys, has it?
On the radio, somebody said AN0M was originally developed by an FBI informer, and they suggested the FBI take it over.
Has there been any more info on how the DOJ got access to Darkside’s bitcoin wallet? Can you get into them with a cracker, or was that a sting too?
A great thread on Twitter about the origins of AN0M through an unsealed search warrant
Ars Technica had a take as well:
Quite interested in this one as well
We talked about it on Security Now this afternoon.
It’s still unknown but either the FBI got the wallet password from a source - maybe the Darkside hackers used An0n? - or, more likely, the bad guys shared credentials with an exchange – a so-called “custodial wallet” – who turned them over to the FBI when subpoenaed.