The Safety Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained terrorists who demanded bitcoin in return for not blowing up buildings within the nation’s capital. In
The Safety Service of Ukraine (SSU) detained terrorists who demanded bitcoin in return for not blowing up buildings within the nation’s capital.
In accordance with a put up on SSU’s Fb web page, two 60-year-old males posted a paper word on an house constructing in Kyiv threatening to explode that constructing or one other one in the event that they didn’t obtain 50 BTC to their bitcoin handle.
To show they have been critical, the alleged terrorists detonated a small bomb close to a subway station on July 21 after which referred to as the police twice, reporting bombs have been planted in different places in Kyiv, and that these actions have been associated to the explosion close to the subway station.
After analyzing cellphone knowledge and avenue digicam footage, the SSU detained two suspects.
“Regardless of their superior age, they realized how varied criminals have been utilizing crypto and hoped to keep away from punishment after getting cash in a digital pockets,” wrote Anton Herashchenko, deputy minister on the Ukrainian Ministry of Inner Affairs, on his Fb web page.
The bitcoin pockets handle on the menace discover has just one incoming transaction on file, receiving 0.00012258 BTC on July 22 from an unknown handle. In accordance with knowledge from Crystal Blockchain transaction tracing software program, the cash got here to the pockets from the LocalBitcoins market by way of 9 hops by different addresses, together with a number of transactions to the Russian darkish market Hydra.
In December 2019, a sequence of bomb threats disrupted work at faculties, courthouses, purchasing malls and airports in Russia, with nameless terrorists claiming to be defrauded customers of the defunct WEX change and demanding 120 BTC.
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