Report: Colonial Pipeline paid ransomware attackers $5 million, but still had to rely on its own backups

Bloomberg reports that the extortionists of Colonial Pipeline received almost $5 million worth of cryptocurrency, but that the tool they provided to decrypt IT systems wasn’t up to the job. Continue reading Report: Colonial Pipeline paid ransomware attackers $5 million, but still had to rely on its own backups

Responding to the Colonial Pipeline Breach & CISA Ransomware Alert

The recent DarkSide ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, a critical infrastructure supplier of about 45% of the United States’ east coast gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, infected the company’s IT network. Learn about the threat posed by ransomware an… Continue reading Responding to the Colonial Pipeline Breach & CISA Ransomware Alert

DarkSide Offered Ransomware-as-a-Service Before Pipeline Attack

Colonial Pipeline might be tight-lipped about the vulnerability hackers exploited to launch a ransomware attack that shut down the U.S.’s largest pipeline, but details are emerging about the DarkSide ransomware variant behind the attack and the cyberc… Continue reading DarkSide Offered Ransomware-as-a-Service Before Pipeline Attack

Webinar: Cybereason vs. DarkSide Ransomware

Colonial Pipeline was recently the victim of a devastating attack that shut down U.S. operations across the East Coast, threatening an already tenuous economic recovery effort. This attack against critical infrastructure by the DarkSide Ransomware… Continue reading Webinar: Cybereason vs. DarkSide Ransomware

Inside the DarkSide Ransomware Attack on Colonial Pipeline

On May 8, the Colonial Pipeline Company announced that it had fallen victim to a ransomware attack a day earlier. The pipeline operations include transporting 100 million gallons of fuel daily to meet the needs of consumers across the entire easte… Continue reading Inside the DarkSide Ransomware Attack on Colonial Pipeline

Colonial Pipeline FAIL: Ransomware Gang Threatens Gas Supplies

The Colonial Pipeline is critical infrastructure—of that there’s no doubt. But ransomware scrotes have crippled it.
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Major ransomware attack cripples largest gas pipeline in the US

By Habiba Rashid
A massive ransomware attack on one of the largest gas pipelines in the US, Colonial Pipeline, led it to be shut down on Friday.
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Smashing Security podcast #201: Robin Hood, Flippy, and the web ad bubble

The Darkside ransomware gang thinks it’s a modern-day Robin Hood when it donates extorted Bitcoins to charity, the micro-targeted ad industry could pop like a bubble, and would you trust a burger-flipping robot?

All this and much more is discussed i… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #201: Robin Hood, Flippy, and the web ad bubble