Ransomware crims drop Bitcoin faster than Google axes services
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/24/ransomware_bitcoin/
"I've seen this discussion in underground forums among Russian criminals," Etay Maor, senior fraud prevention strategist at IBM Security, told The Register today in San Francisco.
"They use Bitcoin for the money laundering part and take payment with it, but they'll move it out almost immediately. Most of them won’t keep bitcoins – they don't like the valuations Bitcoin has – so they just use it as a layer of obfuscation, and move it to a different form of money."
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