{"id":223102,"date":"2017-08-03T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T15:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=223102"},"modified":"2017-08-03T18:00:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:00:09","slug":"wannacry-bitcoin-ransom-wallets-emptied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/223102-wannacry-bitcoin-ransom-wallets-emptied.html","title":{"rendered":"WannaCry Bitcoin ransom wallets emptied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin wallets used by the operators of the WannaCry ransomware have been emptied, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1045270\/wannacry-update-the-hackers-behind-ransomware-attack-finally-cashed-out-about-140000-in-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quartz reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>WannaCry infected Windows machines and encrypted their files &#8211; demanding a $300 or $600 ransom in Bitcoin to have them returned.<\/p>\n<p>It spread around the globe using an\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/211206-the-nsa-told-microsoft-about-eternalblue-hack-used-in-wannacry-report.html\">NSA-created cyber weapon called EternalBlue<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The WannaCry ransomware earned its makers around $140,000 in Bitcoin in total, which sat untouched for months in three wallets.<\/p>\n<p>According to Quartz, the Bitcoin is likely to have been sent through a &#8220;mixer&#8221;, obscuring its trail as the attackers try to cash out.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/215606-nsa-thinks-north-korea-was-behind-wannacry-attack-report.html\">An internal NSA document<\/a><\/strong> stated that\u00a0based on an analysis of the ransomware, it points with \u201cmoderate confidence\u201d to the Reconnaissance General Bureau &#8211; North Korea&#8217;s spy agency.<\/p>\n<p>It believes WannaCry was an attempt to raise money for Kim Jong-un\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/220614-south-african-government-safe-from-ransomware-like-wannacry-sita.html\">South African government safe from ransomware like WannaCry: SITA<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin wallets used by the operators of WannaCry have been emptied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":209920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44696,27],"tags":[187,43154],"class_list":["post-223102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","category-security","tag-bitcoin","tag-wannacry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223114,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223102\/revisions\/223114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}