The U.S. DoJ Recover Millions in BTC Ransomware Paid to Russian Hackers

The Justice Department has recovered most of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment to Darkside, a Russia-based hacker group, after a cyberattack that made the operator of the nation's largest fuel pipeline, the East Coast pipeline, halt its operations last month. The operation to seize cryptocurrency paid by the hacker group is the first of its kind. The recovery of a ransom paid by a company that had fallen under a cyberattack was rare. It was undertaken by a specialized ransomware task…