Cyberattack on US pipeline is linked to criminal gang
Associated Press,
by
Mae Anderson
&
Frank Bajak
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
5/10/2021 12:43:00 AM
NEW YORK — The cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline was carried out by a criminal gang known as DarkSide that cultivates a Robin Hood image of stealing from corporations and giving a cut to charity, two people close to the investigation said Sunday.
The shutdown, meanwhile, stretched into its third day, with the Biden administration loosening regulations for the transport of petroleum products on highways as part of an “all-hands-on-deck” effort to avoid disruptions in the fuel supply.
Experts said that gasoline prices are unlikely to be affected if the pipeline is back to normal in the next few days but
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 5/10/2021 12:44:13 AM (No. 780379)
The DoT 'regional emergency declaration' covers Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/10/2021 2:55:09 AM (No. 780411)
So what is the FBI doing about it? Nothing as usual?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
OhioNick 5/10/2021 3:46:10 AM (No. 780426)
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if there's less gasoline flowing into the East Coast, then the acute shortage in that region will be accompanied by a huge glut of gas in the rest of the country as producers will have no place to put the extra gasoline. So wouldn't that mean sky-high gas prices in the east and cheaper gas everywhere else?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 5/10/2021 4:54:33 AM (No. 780441)
Are they one of AOC's crazies?
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I have long wondered why anyone running the security of something like this would allow it to be accessed from the Internet (BTW, I work in IT).
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/10/2021 6:31:50 AM (No. 780459)
You can bet the FBI knew about them, but all their resources are on Trump and spying on the Republicans. Can you guess how many resources are necessary to SWAT team the Republicans, and frame them for crimes. No doubt the Democrats will increase funding for these activities.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/10/2021 6:55:43 AM (No. 780471)
It would seem to me that ransomware should be easy to stop.
Follow the money and arrest and convict those that receive it.
Then execute the perps.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/10/2021 7:17:44 AM (No. 780484)
You can bet that before long Biden will appear and blame this attack on “White Supremacists”.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 5/10/2021 8:00:58 AM (No. 780526)
These people are TERRORISTS and we don’t send the FBI, we send SEAL TEAM SIX and bury their bodies at sea. Ransomware problem solved.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 5/10/2021 8:39:09 AM (No. 780563)
Leftists...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
worried 5/10/2021 8:53:47 AM (No. 780578)
FTA: "... gasoline prices are unlikely to be affected..." Prices here (Florida) are up 16 cents even before this. So what is JoJo's admin doing to help people? More inflation? Hey, you can't blame everything on covid!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
hershey 5/10/2021 9:39:47 AM (No. 780646)
Find em and take em down...I filled up yesterday and it was 3.00 a gallon...
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 5/10/2021 10:13:43 AM (No. 780681)
Robin Hood, my big Aunt Minnie! The day a pack of marauding thieving gangs gives even one farthing to charity, I'll eat my hat, and yours too.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 5/10/2021 12:55:36 PM (No. 780912)
#5, it's very simple. They are lazy as hell, and the net connections are really convenient. And the other major factor is that the IT leadership are usually ignorant as hell about the actual 'nuts and bolts' of network management and system admin. Having done both jobs with departmental computers, starting with literally drilling in the DEC connections to our first coax cable network in house, and up to multiple supercomputers before I could (gladly) hand it off to IT pros and go back to my engineering job full time, I have a decent idea about this.
And finally....these "IT managers" (the clueless ones) believe those fast drummers selling the "impenatrable firewall and network security software and hardware". If the firewall and net security is really great, then the bad guys will get access via a phishing attack, or social engineering, or via a access virus brought in accidentally by an employee on his mem stick....injecting the virus into the system when he or she plugs it in to his work computer.
Air gap ( no connection at all, EVER) and a physical removal or irremovable blockage of all unibus ports has a good shot at protecting your computers. Then there is the insider threat. That dude that just gets mad and decides to help out the bad guys, and bypasses everything because he is authorized.
Actually securing critical computers is NOT simple, it is a lot of work, it is inconvenient, and it an be costly. So most "IT managers" just punt, and pretend with "the finest security software there is".....Hah!
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