The US Treasury Department has placed bitcoin addresses on its sanctions list for the first time after two Iranian hackers were charged with extorting millions of dollars through them. The two addresses belonged to Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri, who allegedly created the SamSam ransomware software. The Justice Department unsealed an indictment against both men today, alleging that they collected $6 million by targeting more than 200 victims — including the cities of Atlanta, Georgia, and Newark, New Jersey.
SamSam began infecting computers in 2015, and it’s been linked to expensive and temporarily devastating attacks on hospitals and infrastructure. Like other ransomware, SamSam encrypted users’ machines and...
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