Security News > 2020 > October > Darkside ransomware donates $20K of extortion money to charities
The operators of Darkside ransomware have donated some of the money they made extorting victims to nonprofits Children International and The Water Project.
"As we said in the first press release - we are targeting only large profitable corporations. We think it's fair that some of the money they've paid will go to charity. No matter how bad you think our work is, we are pleased to know that we helped change someone's life." - Darkside ransomware operators.
On October 13, Darkside showed proof that their gesture was real by posting two receipts for.88BTC for donations to the two organizations.
Darkside ransomware operators donated the money using The Giving Block, an organization that offers nonprofits the possibility to accept cryptocurrency donations.
The ransomware operators plan to make more donations in the future but these will be anonymous.