A day before testifying to the Senate committee, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the recovery of $2.3 million in bitcoin from the attackers of Colonial Pipeline.
In July, the State Department offered a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of any person, who while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government, participates in malicious cyber activities against U.S. critical infrastructure.
The State Department stated that Certain malicious cyber operations targeting U.S. critical infrastructure likely violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
Violations of CFAA include extortion threats as part of ransomware attacks; intentional unauthorized access to a computer or exceeding authorized access and thereby obtaining information from any protected computer; and knowingly causing the transmission of a program, information, code, or command that damages a protected computer.
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