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Wannacry authors make a $143,000 withdraw from Bitcoin wallets, whilst the internet is distracted!

Wannacry wallets from the orchestrators behind the ransomware outbreak were emptied to the tune of $143,000. The Bitcoin generated through ransom payments from the global attack had not been touched until Wednesday. Marcus Hutchins (AKA @Malwaretech) was arrested whilst returning to the UK from Las Vegas- on suspicion of creating malware (covered here) But the second event which will be covered in the article is related to an event that seemed to of passed most of Twitter and the internet by.”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/61714/cyber-crime/wannacry-wallets-emptied.html

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