Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner says China-linked Salt Typhoon group listened to phone calls and read texts by hacking US telecom networks
https://www.nytimes.com/... Bluesky: @anarcish.bsky.social : For the entire history of information technology security experts have warned that once you make a back door to allow the government to leg...
Investigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through a VPN account whose password has since been discovered inside a batch of leaks on the dark web
🍿 Gangster Coworking CNN : Ransomware attackers used compromised password to access Colonial Pipeline network Kim Lyons / The Verge : Hackers reportedly used a compromised password in Colonial Pipelin...
Investigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through a VPN account whose password has since been discovered inside a batch of leaks on the dark web
- Investigators suspect hackers got password from dark web leak — Colonial CEO hopes U.S. goes after criminal hackers abroad
Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount says the company paid a $4.4M ransom because executives were unsure how bad the attack was
Joseph Blount says he needed to quickly restore service after cyberattack threatened East Coast supply — The operator of the Colonial Pipeline learned …
DarkSide, the gang behind Colonial attack, claims it lost control of web servers and funds, as researchers wonder whether a US takedown or exit scam is to blame
the one responsible for attacking Colonial Pipeline — closes after its servers were seized and cryptocurrency holdings mysteriously disappeared. Closure comes as crime forums start banning ransomware ...
Sources: Colonial paid ~$5M ransom in cryptocurrency within hours of the attack, but the hackers' decrypting tool was so slow that it had to use its own backups
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Colonial Pipeline says it has restarted operations, after being shut down for five days due to DarkSide's ransomware attack
Colonial Pipeline, operator of the largest U.S. fuel pipeline, said Wednesday it is restarting operations after being shut down for five days due to a cyberattack.
Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of fuel consumed on the US East Coast, says it halted operations due to a ransomware attack
and Created an Unholy Mess Eric Geller / Politico : What you need to know about the Colonial Pipeline hack Mitchell Clark / The Verge : Colonial Pipeline hackers apologize, promise to ransom less cont...
DarkSide, the group behind the pipeline attack, claims it wants to make money, not cause “problems for society”, and it'll add “moderation” to picking targets
- A hacker group called DarkSide is behind the cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline that shut down a major oil pipeline over the weekend.
Sources: cybercrime gang DarkSide, which caused Colonial Pipeline to halt operations, stole and encrypted ~100GB of data on Thursday before demanding a ransom
> The hackers who caused Colonial Pipeline to shut down the biggest U.S. gas pipe on Friday began their blitz against the co. a day earlier, stealing a large amount of data before locking computers w ...