Receive all Cointelegraph news immediately in Telegram. JOIN × News Bitcoin News Ethereum News Altcoin News Blockchain News Regulation Scams Guides & Analytics Bitcoin Bitcoin101 Price Index Price Analysis Ethereum Ethereum101 Price Index Price Analysis Events BlockShow 2017 Helsinki 2016 Events Events News Explained ICO Calendar Press Releases Submit a post Submit press release Events About Us Catalog Advertise Franchise Join Us The Cointelegraphfuture of money Toggle navigation Submit a post Submit press release News Bitcoin News Ethereum News Altcoin News Blockchain News Regulation Scams Press Releases Guides & Analytics Bitcoin Bitcoin101 Price Index Price Analysis Ethereum Ethereum101 Price Index Price Analysis Press Releases Events BlockShow 2017 Helsinki 2016 Events Events News Press Releases Explained ICO Calendar Advertise 2 HOURS AGO By William Suberg Petya’s Ransom Money Tracked Through Blockchain: Image The modest $10,000 ransom collected by the pseudo-Petya hackers is being tracked in the form of a curiously attractive diagram. 3442 Total views 88 Total shares The ransom money from the most recent ‘pseudo-Petya’ cyberattack is the subject of a detective diagram attempting to follow it. The image, created and uploaded by Quartz Monday, attempts to make sense of where the $10,000 paid to hackers went after it moved from its reception wallet July 4. “If we knew what Bitcoin address or addresses the Petya/NotPetya money ended up in, we’d likely find hundreds of thousands of transactions between that address and the starting address,” the publication explains. “That’s more than we could ever chart, but if we could, many paths would flow out from the center as they do in the diagram…” Nature of the attack There has been increasing debate over the nature of the cyberattack, which appeared to exactly copy the style of the earlier WannaCry ransomware affecting computers throughout the world. Researchers quickly realized however that, contrary to indications the virus was a reincarnation of the separate Petya, this latest attack is something entirely new. The ransomware aspect appeared to be a sideline, with fears raised that infected devices would simply have all their data wiped. Nonetheless, the hacking scam only collected a modest amount of money, which made its way through coin mixers and is now all but untraceable in real life, Quartz notes. Current analysis of the reception wallet shows a balance of just zero BTC with just over four BTC transacted. Bitcoin Scams Ransomware Quartz Bitcoin Wallet WannaCry Comments Hide Comments Hottest Bitcoin News Daily For updates and exclusive offers, enter your e-mail below. Cointelegraph News Top News Recent Editor Recommends Buckle Up: Bitcoin Price Heads For Below $2,000 As August 1 Nears 46982 | 35 Tezos $232 Mln ICO Sparks Fresh Fears For Ethereum Sell-Off 43632 | 11 Ari Paul, Tuur Demeester ‘Look Forward’ To Up To $1k Bitcoin Fees 41527 | 12 Ethereum Price Analysis: July 4 – July 11 31724 | 9 The Brief History of Bubbles 29107 | 15 Micropayment Company Ditches “Outdated Bitcoin” For IoT Technology 1665 | 2 Blockstream Meets BitTorrent: Lightning Micropayments Suggested to CEO Cohen 2191 McAfee Stakes His Name, $10 Mln On Bitcoin Split 4343 | 4 Petya’s Ransom Money Tracked Through Blockchain: Image 3442 Vice President of Marketing from Wargaming.net Joins SkinCoin’s Advisory Board 103 How Bots And Black Marketers Are Influencing Bitcoin Price, Altcoins Value 20669 | 7 Startup Darling EOS Cashes In Millions Of ETH As ICO Scorn Continues 22471 | 14 Investors are Comfortable With Bitcoin, Ethereum: Hong Kong Experts 10338 | 2 Stop Trying To Kill My ICO: Nick Ayton 12720 | 4 Five Big Businesses Leading Bitcoin Charge 19527 Hottest Bitcoin News Daily ×Close Hottest Bitcoin News Daily For updates and exclusive offers, enter your e-mail below. ×Close Registration Username * First Name Last Name Email * Password * Repeat Password * You registration completed successfully. Confirmation email sent to email address provided. Sign up Already have an account? Log in here ×Close Login Email * Password * Twitter Facebook Log in with Facebook! I forgot my password Login Don’t have an account yet? Sign up About us The Cointelegraph covers Fintech, Blockchain and Bitcoin bringing you the latest news and analyses on the future of money. Site map Catalog Advertise Franchise About us Projects Join Us Events International Sites Bitcoin USA Bitcoin Brasil Bitcoin Slovenia Bitcoin Spain Bitcoin Serbia Bitcoin Japan Franchise Information Terms of services and Privacy policy © Cointelegraph 2013-2017
