The organization affiliated with the US Treasury Department has added Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses, which are claimed to be linked to an organization that organizes ransomware attacks, to the sanctions list.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) within the Ministry arrested two Russian citizens named Arthur Sungatov and Ivan Kondratyev. organizing a ransomware attack he accused.
OFAC, which placed 10 Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses on its sanctions list, banned organizations in the USA from providing services to these two individuals.
Ministry of Justice, these individuals LockBit has stolen more than $120 million from more than 2,000 people in recent years He claimed that he was affiliated with a ransomware organization called.
carried out jointly by US, Europol and UK authorities. Operation Cronos Within this scope, LockBit’s website was seized. Authorities say the victims regain access to compromised devices will provide assistance.
Europol linked to LockBit More than 200 cryptocurrency accounts He explained that it was frozen.
According to Arkham Intelligence data, some of the addresses included in OFAC’s sanctions list were used on KuCoin, Coinspad and Binance platforms.