From Bitcoinist’s Julio Gil-Pulgar

On July 14, 2018, the DoJ indicted 12 officers of the Russian intelligence agency, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU). These GRU agents allegedly executed large-scale hacking attacks aimed at interfering with the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.Specifically, the indictment first count, “Conspiracy to Commit an Offense Against the United States,” charges that GRU agents engaged in cyber operations that included the staged releases of hacked documents.

The indictment’s tenth count, “Conspiracy to Launder Money,” details how the GRU agents used the cryptocurrency to fund the infrastructure they used in their hacking operations.

One revealing quote from the indictment reveals the operatives “principally used bitcoin when purchasing servers, registering domains, and otherwise making payments in furtherance of hacking activity.” The full article can be found here.