[HN Gopher] U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomwa...
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       U.S. cybersecurity experts plead guilty for ransomware attacks
        
       Author : robotnikman
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2025-12-30 21:31 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.tomshardware.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.tomshardware.com)
        
       | spcharc wrote:
       | Who needs hackers if you have IT experts like this
        
       | ekjhgkejhgk wrote:
       | I don't usually open court documents, so I have no idea what to
       | expect. But I notice that there's no description of evidence. Is
       | this because they weren't sentenced yet? Or what? Will we be able
       | to see how they were caught?
        
         | Jimmc414 wrote:
         | An indictment is a formal accusation of wrongdoing and only
         | needs to allege facts sufficient to inform the defendant of the
         | charges. Evidence is disclosed to the defense during discovery
         | and presented to the court at trial.
        
       | nioj wrote:
       | Related: _Cybersecurity Employees Plead Guilty to Ransomware
       | Attacks Using ALPHV BlackCat_ (justice.gov):
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438478
        
       | hackermailman wrote:
       | I assume this works where the ransomware authors, who likely are
       | in some untouchable nation and the son of some major politician,
       | provide a binary with their own addresses to take the ransom then
       | pay the person who planted it out minus their cut. Those wallets
       | used for paying crime commissions are probably reused often or
       | otherwise identified as they don't care if you get caught and you
       | need to either sit on those coins for years until the limitations
       | runs out or have enough knowledge to wash them and anyone doing
       | this is already making bad life decisions so likely greedy and
       | cashed those in a traceable way like driving to work in his new
       | Ferrari.
        
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