How do you hide the Ransomware authors BTC they make ? (325 million a year estimated)
Where do you think it's spent ?
Bear in mind that while these coins are technically used for illegal activity, most ransomware victims have nothing to do with each other, nor engage in repeated transactions (somewhat different from say DNM drug buyers and sellers, gamblers, etc.) which makes the coins themselves are relatively clean from the perspective of blockchain analysis. I would not be surprised if those coins were used to fund the "clean coins" that come out of mixers run by the same ransomware operators. But that is just a guess.
I bet it is repeated activity from the Malware pushers..
They lure in victims then have a pipeline to the same routes to launder their proceeds.
The same went on for ages in the hacker scene with Rootkit Botnet op's run by Russian underground organized crime.
I have a source code package for Zuess which was traded underground on Russian forums..
they were selling for around 10 grand i heard.. it was of course Antivirus undetectable.
Looking at the c++ code i was impressed.. good god was this a massive project.
Those guys simply switched to targeting users with Bitcoin Ransomware
And who better to target than the guys who already have bitcoin LOL
Anyway funny how smooth posts twice and smoothie posts twice at the same time.. again.
Do you two simply have an alert system to jump on topics together or what ?
