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originally posted by: RelSciHistItSufi
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
Bumping this Mr Pool post I made because it took so long to make the rest of you had moved to next page before I hit send!
originally posted by: BoomGiggle
a reply to: pheonix358
I am trying my hardest to post to the boards. Keep getting the captcha of all things wrong.
originally posted by: BoomGiggle
Ok. I am losing my mind or the information warfare is just that intense. I have managed to end up in a peculiar place. I apologize in advance if this is the case. Weird how the world works. Nothing is what it seems.
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
a reply to: crankyoldman
Interesting this was posted on the day the AP building gets demolished by the IDF. Perhaps this is the start of a new war...the mil/intel community vs Corp media hyenas. This may be a good show!
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
a reply to: crankyoldman
Interesting this was posted on the day the AP building gets demolished by the IDF. Perhaps this is the start of a new war...the mil/intel community vs Corp media hyenas. This may be a good show!
The cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown of a vital US pipeline was carried out by a Russian criminal gang known as DarkSide, sources say.
DarkSide cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity. The group, which first emerged in August 2020, are relatively new but very organized, experts say.
Experts say DarkSide was likely composed of ransomware veterans and that it came out of nowhere in the middle of last year and immediately unleashed a digital crimewave.
It comes as Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned that technological attacks such as these were 'here to stay.'
'This is what businesses now have to worry about,' she said. 'Unfortunately, these sorts of attacks are becoming more frequent... and we have to work in partnership with business to secure networks to defend ourselves.'
Joe Biden said on Monday that âso farâ there has been no evidence that the cyber-attack late last week on a US pipeline had any involvement from the Russian state â but Biden did say Russia âhas some responsibilityâ to deal with ransomware attacks emanating from its soil.
ďťżThe FBI confirmed today (May 10) that a Russian hacking group called DarkSide was behind a recent cyberattack that shut down the largest fuel pipeline in the US.
Recorded Future, the security firm, said in a post that the allegedly Russia-based Darkside had admitted in a web post that it lost access to certain servers used for its web blog and for payments.
While there was no evidence of who might have forced down Darkside's website, the twitter account of a US military cyber warfare group, the 780th Military Intelligence Brigade, retweeted the Recorded Future report on Friday.
âA few hours ago, we lost access to the public part of our infrastructure, namely: Blog. Payment server. CDN servers,â said Darksupp, the operator of the Darkside ransomware, in a post spotted by Recorded Future threat intelligence analyst Dmitry Smilyanets.
But Smilyanets warns that the groupâs announcement could also be a ruse, as no announcement has yet been made by US officials.
The group could be taking advantage of President Bidenâs statements as cover to shut down its infrastructure and run away with its affiliateâs money without paying their cutsâa tactic known as an âexit scamâ on the cybercriminal underground.
Recorded Future
While we may never know who or what is driving these changes among ransomware gangs, it is pretty clear that the Colonial Pipeline attack and its aftermath appears to have broken the camelâs back, and US authorities have started applying some sort of pressure on these groups.
"The line between nation-state and criminal actors is increasingly blurry as nation-states turn to criminal proxies as a tool of state power, then turn a blind eye to the cyber crime perpetrated by the same malicious actors," said Mieke Eoyang, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, during a hearing today before the House Armed Services Committee.
"To protect the 2020 elections," Nakasone said, "Cybercom conducted more than two dozen operations to get ahead of foreign threats before they were able to interfere with or influence elections.
A hospital is forced to cancel routine appointments and a child protection IT system goes down, but vaccinations are unaffected.
HSE chief executive Paul Reid said: "We have been the subject of a very significant, major ransomware attack.
"It's a very sophisticated attack. It is impacting all of our national and local systems that would be involved in all of our core services.
"They've all been taken offline as a precaution. We have systems in place to revert back to what you might call old-fashioned paper-based record-keeping."
5th generation warfare: the battle of perceptions and information.