🔐 US Treasury blacklists crypto addresses linked to Russian ransomware group LockBit 🚫

- The Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) named two Russian nationals, Artur Sungatov and Ivan Kondratyev, and identified 10 bitcoin and ether addresses allegedly used by the LockBit ransomware group.

- LockBit is accused of stealing over $120 million from 2,000+ victims worldwide.

- An international operation, dubbed Operation Cronos, seized LockBit's website and various pages, with law enforcement agencies set to distribute decryption keys to victims.

- Over 200 cryptocurrency accounts tied to LockBit have been frozen, and authorities in the US, UK, and EU have seized parts of the group's infrastructure.

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