An unknown hacker, who may even be a member of the Russian special services, hacked into 986 bitcoin wallets controlled by the FSB, the Foreign Intelligence Service and the military intelligence of the Russian Federation. He stole bitcoins worth $300,000 from them and transferred some of them to Ukraine. This was reported by CoinDesk, citing data from Chainalysis, an American company engaged in blockchain analysis and cryptocurrency operations..

According to Chainalysis, I found wallets of special services thanks to the function with which transactions are documented in the bitcoin blockchain.. This happened even before the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The hacker sent out a message that these wallets are being used by intelligence agencies to fund hacking operations..

As Chainalysis notes, third parties have previously linked at least three of these wallet addresses to Russia, adding credibility to the story.. Two of them were connected with the attack on the American IT company Solarwinds in 2020.. when more than 200 organizations that were her clients around the world were affected. A third crypto wallet was used to pay for servers involved in a disinformation campaign during the 2016 US presidential election..

At first, the hacker wanted to destroy these bitcoins from the found wallets, and using the OP_RETURN function, which cancels previous transactions, he did this with $ 300,000 worth of cryptocurrency. But after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he began to send cryptocurrency to wallets that the Ukrainian government opened to raise funds to fight Russian aggression..

At the same time, according to her analysis, he received access to the crypto wallets of the Russian special services not as a result of hacking, but with the help of “insider actions”.

“Put simply, this person could have infiltrated a hacker network working for Russia, or could have been a member of the Russian intelligence services who switched sides,” Chainalysis said in a report..

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