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2021-05-09 Cyber

[DM] Fears of gas price surge after 'DarkSide' cyber attack shuts Colonial Pipeline between Texas and NJ that carries 45% of East Coast fuel: Experts call it 'most significant assault on infrastructure to date in the US'

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-09 10:28|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Guess what's going to happen in a Civil War.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-09 11:02|| 2021-05-09 11:02|| Front Page Top

#2 ^
We will be using bicycles...

Posted by Zenobia Brown7409 2021-05-09 12:00|| 2021-05-09 12:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Happy Mother's Day to mothers everywhere.

I feel like its Father's Day with the Joan Blondell feature on the Defender-Scimitar. Thanks Fred.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-05-09 12:06|| 2021-05-09 12:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Joan Blondell was a daughter... ;-)

I’m deeply curious to discover who the hacker is. We’ve been putting this story in War on Terror, but it might be China or North Korea getting frisky.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-09 13:06|| 2021-05-09 13:06|| Front Page Top

#5 I should have read the article before commenting. Key bits:

The hackers are likely a professional cybercriminal group, and a group dubbed 'DarkSide' was among the potential suspects, two U.S. government officials told Reuters.

Bloomberg News, citing people familiar with the matter, reported late on Saturday that the hackers are part of DarkSide and took nearly 100 gigabytes of data out of Colonial's network on Thursday ahead of the pipeline shutdown.

DarkSide is known for deploying ransomware and extorting victims - while avoiding targets in post-Soviet states. It is believed to be based in Russia.

DarkSide first emerged in August 2020, and has used its ransomware on companies including CompuCom, an Office Depot subsidiary, as well as a Canadian division of rental car company Enterprise.

According to data security firm Arete, DarkSide finds vulnerabilities in a network, gains access to administrator accounts, and then harvests data from the victim's server and encrypts it.

The software leaves a ransom note text file with demands.

Ransoms average more than $6.5 million, Arete said, and the attacks lead to an average of five days of downtime for the business.

What is DarkSide?
DarkSide is a group of hackers which first emerged in August 2020, with a press release declaring their formation.

Since then, they have become known for their professional operations and large ransoms.

The group has a phone number and even a help desk to facilitate negotiations with victims.

They have publicly stated that they prefer not to attack hospitals, schools, non-profits, and governments, but rather big organizations that can afford to pay large ransoms.

'Before any attack, we carefully analyze your accountancy and determine how much you can pay based on your net income,' the press release reads.

So probably not War on Terror. I’m moving this to Page 3: Non-WoT and Cyber.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-09 13:18|| 2021-05-09 13:18|| Front Page Top

#6 inside job done by the Dems to further erode Americans freedom

Posted by 746 2021-05-09 13:19|| 2021-05-09 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 They can spend the better part of two decades trying to shut down the industry and when the only people left are those who are always having to find the exact right corner to cut to stay in business, they'll be there to sanctimonously exhude moral superiority when they fail.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-05-09 13:44|| 2021-05-09 13:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Terror and extortion kind of go together -- don't you think?

Posted by Harry Sforza6078 2021-05-09 13:48|| 2021-05-09 13:48|| Front Page Top

#9 If the Govt want to spend money on "infrastructure", then spend it hardening our essential infrastructure against cyber and electronic warfare. The smart people have been begging for a couple of decades for that, the reason it doesn't get funded is that the Swamp cant use it to control people.

Posted by These Forkbeard7574 2021-05-09 16:14|| 2021-05-09 16:14|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe a Nord Stream 3 would help?

Posted by Clem 2021-05-09 22:12|| 2021-05-09 22:12|| Front Page Top

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