U.S. Justice Department recouped $2.3 million of $4.4 million ransom Colonial Pipeline Co. paid following a May 7 attack. DOJ’s Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force coordinated the effort, in which the FBI tracked part of the payment to a bitcoin wallet it controls. Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount is scheduled to answer questions about the attack to the Senate and the House of Representatives on Tuesday and Wednesday. The FBI appears to have recovered the portion of the ransom that went to the DarkSide affiliate that launched the attack.”]
Source: https://www.careersinfosecurity.com/23-million-colonial-pipeline-ransom-payment-recovered-a-16823