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The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Wednesday sanctioned two Iran-based individuals who helped exchange bitcoin BTCUSD, +3.17% ransom payments into Iranian rial on behalf of Iranian malicious cyber actors. Over 7,000 transactions in bitcoin, worth millions of U.S. dollars, have processed through these two addresses – some of which involved SamSam ransomware derived bitcoin, OFAC said. OFAC said it’s the first time it publicly attributed digital currency addresses to designated individuals The U.S. Department of Justice also indicted two Iranians for infecting numerous data networks with SamSam ransomware. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Wednesday sanctioned two Iran-based individuals who helped exchange bitcoinBTCUSD, +3.17% ransom payments into Iranian rial on behalf of Iranian malicious cyber actors. Over 7,000 transactions in bitcoin, worth millions of U.S. dollars, have processed through these two addresses – some of which involved SamSam ransomware derived bitcoin, OFAC said. OFAC said it’s the first time it publicly attributed digital currency addresses to designated individuals The U.S. Department of Justice also indicted two Iranians for infecting numerous data networks with SamSam ransomware. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Wednesday sanctioned two Iran-based individuals who helped exchange bitcoinBTCUSD, +3.17% ransom payments into Iranian rial on behalf of Iranian malicious cyber actors. Over 7,000 transactions in bitcoin, worth millions of U.S. dollars, have processed through these two addresses – some of which involved SamSam ransomware derived bitcoin, OFAC said. OFAC said it’s the first time it publicly attributed digital currency addresses to designated individuals The U.S. Department of Justice also indicted two Iranians for infecting numerous data networks with SamSam ransomware.The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on Wednesday
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