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Suspected U.S. pipeline hackers say aim is money, not mayhem

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RAPHAEL SATTER
May 10, 2021, 12:15 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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By Raphael Satter 

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The group suspected of a ransomware attack that crippled the leading U.S. fuel pipeline operator said in a news release on Monday that its goal was to make money and not to create problems for society. 

  The group calling itself DarkSide is the prime suspect in the digital extortion attempt against Colonial Pipeline, a firm responsible for funneling fuel to a huge chunk of the East Coast. 

  The ransomware outbreak prompted the company to shut down its network, potentially causing extraordinary disruption as gasoline deliveries dry up. 

  The terse news release posted to DarkSide's website on Monday did not directly mention Colonial Pipeline but, under the heading "About the latest news," it noted that "our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society." 

 

  The statement did not say how much money the hackers are seeking. Colonial Pipeline did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the hackers' statement. The hackers have yet to return repeated messages to their website seeking further comment. 

  DarkSide's statement said its hackers would launch checks on fellow cybercriminals "to avoid social consequences in the future." It added the group was "apolitical" and that observers "do not need to tie us" with any particular government. 

  The statement, which had several spelling and grammatical mistakes, appeared geared toward lowering the political temperature around an intrusion that is becoming one of the most disruptive digital ransom schemes reported. 

  The crippling of Colonial's IT system has led to isolated sales restrictions at retail pumps and is pushing benchmark gasoline prices to a three-year high. 

  Lawmakers have urged stronger protections for critical U.S. energy infrastructure, and the White House has made restarting the fuel network a top priority and organized a federal task force to assess the impact and avoid more severe disruptions. 

  (Reporting by Raphael Satter; additional reporting by Stephanie Kelly in New York; Editing by Howard Goller) 

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13 minutes ago, XCR1250 said:

Suspected U.S. pipeline hackers say aim is money, not mayhem

Reuters
RAPHAEL SATTER
May 10, 2021, 12:15 PM
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 has not necessarily 
 had the cyber 
 
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By Raphael Satter 

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The group suspected of a ransomware attack that crippled the leading U.S. fuel pipeline operator said in a news release on Monday that its goal was to make money and not to create problems for society. 

  The group calling itself DarkSide is the prime suspect in the digital extortion attempt against Colonial Pipeline, a firm responsible for funneling fuel to a huge chunk of the East Coast. 

  The ransomware outbreak prompted the company to shut down its network, potentially causing extraordinary disruption as gasoline deliveries dry up. 

  The terse news release posted to DarkSide's website on Monday did not directly mention Colonial Pipeline but, under the heading "About the latest news," it noted that "our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society." 

 

  The statement did not say how much money the hackers are seeking. Colonial Pipeline did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the hackers' statement. The hackers have yet to return repeated messages to their website seeking further comment. 

  DarkSide's statement said its hackers would launch checks on fellow cybercriminals "to avoid social consequences in the future." It added the group was "apolitical" and that observers "do not need to tie us" with any particular government. 

  The statement, which had several spelling and grammatical mistakes, appeared geared toward lowering the political temperature around an intrusion that is becoming one of the most disruptive digital ransom schemes reported. 

  The crippling of Colonial's IT system has led to isolated sales restrictions at retail pumps and is pushing benchmark gasoline prices to a three-year high. 

  Lawmakers have urged stronger protections for critical U.S. energy infrastructure, and the White House has made restarting the fuel network a top priority and organized a federal task force to assess the impact and avoid more severe disruptions. 

  (Reporting by Raphael Satter; additional reporting by Stephanie Kelly in New York; Editing by Howard Goller) 

That’s comforting. 

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3 hours ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

I’m impressed. This is crime on an entirely different level. Cool stuff. 

We're living in a world where the bean counters see it as less costly to forgo proper IT Security and deal with the consequences of a breach later than to invest the proper funds on a continual basis to put proper controls into place to stop breaches. They face almost no consequences from the law either. 

Eventually shit will get bad enough to where companies will learn but we're not there yet. 

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Aren’t oil lines and it’s electronics infrastructure ? Any money in the trillions of proposed infrastructure bills marked to help their security ?

Just wondering.

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58 minutes ago, SSFB said:

We're living in a world where the bean counters see it as less costly to forgo proper IT Security and deal with the consequences of a breach later than to invest the proper funds on a continual basis to put proper controls into place to stop breaches. They face almost no consequences from the law either. 

Eventually shit will get bad enough to where companies will learn but we're not there yet. 

IT security is a great field to be in right now and likely for a long time into the future.  

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13 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

East coast is a shit hole. 

Don't kid yourself....plenty of liberal ran shitholes in the Midwest and all over this nation.  

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1 hour ago, SSFB said:

We're living in a world where the bean counters see it as less costly to forgo proper IT Security and deal with the consequences of a breach later than to invest the proper funds on a continual basis to put proper controls into place to stop breaches. They face almost no consequences from the law either. 

Eventually shit will get bad enough to where companies will learn but we're not there yet. 

These guys are drilling into stuff could easily be considered a national security matter. It should get the attention of someone in authority. Panic buying is currently occurring in some areas because of this. Last year the attack on finance by Russian influencers was uncovered. The damage from that has gone black. 

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1 minute ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

Nope. Not on the East coast level. 

Yeah Detroit, Milwaukee, Portland and LA are gems.  :lol:  

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I recall saying this was a bad idea.  But others didn't seem concerned.  Bunch of fucking no minds when it comes to this.

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