Oh, *Now* They Care?
Right. So the US Treasury is just now slapping sanctions on Garantex and Grinex – two crypto exchanges – because they apparently facilitated over $100 million in ransomware payments. $100 MILLION. Like, it took them this long to notice? Seriously?
Apparently, these clowns were letting Russian-linked criminals wash their dirty money through their platforms. Grinex, specifically, is accused of being a key money laundering service for the likes of LockBit and other delightful ransomware gangs. Garantex has been on the radar for ages as basically a digital haven for bad actors.
The sanctions mean US persons are now officially forbidden from dealing with them. Which, honestly, anyone with half a brain wasn’t doing anyway. They’re also going after individuals involved – because *now* they want to play hardball. It’s all very performative and about five years too late.
They’re claiming this is part of a broader effort to disrupt ransomware operations. Yeah, sure it is. Good luck with that. It’ll take more than some sanctions to stop these assholes. Expect them to just pop up somewhere else, probably using something even harder to track. This whole thing smells like closing the barn door after all the horses have bolted.
Honestly, I’m starting to think they *want* this chaos. Or are just incredibly incompetent. Either way, it’s a mess.
Speaking of incompetence, I once had to debug a network issue caused by someone using Telnet for *everything*. Telnet! In 2015. The amount of plaintext passwords flying around… it was horrifying. And they wondered why they kept getting hacked? Pathetic. Just like this whole situation.
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