The StartMail service is blocked. From it, a “client of the WEX bitcoin exchange” “mined” the courts

The StartMail service is blocked. From it, a “client of the WEX bitcoin exchange” “mined” the courts

The StartMail mail service, which was used to send letters to Russian courts with threats of explosions and a demand to pay 120 bitcoins, was blocked by Roskomnadzor at the request of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.

The ILV emphasized that they did not consider StartMail owners involved in “extremist actions”:

“We understand that restricting access to this mail resource will not completely block the distribution channels of such information by attackers, but we believe that the measures taken should impede the implementation of such actions in the future and significantly reduce their scale.”

Starting in November, calling himself a client of the WEX cryptocurrency exchange, the “miner” demanded to pay him 120 BTC, allegedly stolen by entrepreneurs Konstantin Malofeev from the Wex bitcoin exchange. He later thought about increasing the amount to 10,000 BTC.

According to the BBC Russian Service, the “miner” may be Kiev citizen Sergei, whose 120 BTC are actually frozen on WEX.

In turn, the initiative group of WEX users believes that a series of “mines” could be organized by Konstantin Malofeev himself to discredit them and stop activity on the exchange in the legal field.

According to the FSB, since November 2019, more than a thousand anonymous messages about bombs have been sent to ships’ email addresses in 16 regions. The reports also indicated more than 16 thousand allegedly mined objects of social infrastructure. Note that not all of them were associated with an anonymous miner.

In addition, in addition to StartMail, he used another mail service with an additional encryption system – ProtonMail.

The StartMail service is blocked. From it, a “client of the WEX bitcoin exchange” “mined” the courts