{"id":27810,"date":"2020-08-27T13:55:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27810"},"modified":"2025-08-26T23:15:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:15:24","slug":"bitcoin-extortionists-threaten-the-saratov-region-government-with-an-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitcoin-extortionists-threaten-the-saratov-region-government-with-an-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin extortionists threaten the Saratov region government with an explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">On Wednesday, 26 August, a letter threatening an explosion was received by the Government of Saratov Oblast. The attackers demanded 1.990364 BTC, according to the local publication \\&#8221;Fourth Power\\&#8221;.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Law enforcement and security services who arrived at the Saratov government building found no signs of a bombing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier, a series of false bomb threats across Russia began in 2019. An unknown person demanded payment of 120 BTC, allegedly stolen from the Bitcoin exchange WEX by entrepreneur Konstantin Malofeyev.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">To combat the activity of the \u201cminer,\u201d Roskomnadzor has already blocked several mail services that he used to send letters. Among them StartMail, ProtonMail, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/russian-prosecutor-generals-office-blocks-two-anonymous-email-services\"> Anonymousspeech and Vistomail<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">It is not known whether the Saratov incident is connected with the WEX Bitcoin extortionist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 26 August, a letter threatening an explosion was received by the Government of Saratov Oblast. The attackers demanded 1.990364 BTC, according to the local publication &#8216;Fourth Power&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,27],"class_list":["post-27810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27811,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27810\/revisions\/27811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}