Iran-backed hacker demanded 80 bitcoin in anti-Israeli ransom note
MuddyWater said it had stolen ‘all’ data belonging to an Israeli university and would sell it unless it received $1.7M in BTC.
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A group of anonymous hackers that recently attempted to extort nearly $2 million in bitcoin from a prominent Israeli university is linked to Iranian security services.
In February, the collective calling itself DarkBit targeted the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. The group claimed to have stolen ‘all’ of the university’s data and threatened to put it up for sale within five days unless it received 80 bitcoins ($1.7 million) by way of ransom.
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