More immediate threat vectoring well, and am wondering what the next Big Hack might entail
I dug a bit into the foyer of DarkSide and it is not as if the warnings weren't sounded, but I guess homeland law enforcement either didn't care, did nothing effective, or overwhelmed because they were chasing Chinese and Russians up to alleged mischief digitalshadows.com "DarkSide: The New Ransomware Group Behind Highly Targeted Attacks ... September 20th 2020"
Am surprised that there are no immediate calls for Capitol Hill hearings. Perhaps it all a false-flag black-ops. Let's see the forward staging for tell-tales.
At some juncture some large financial organisation shall be hacked, and when so, all-hell breaks forth.
Currently underway be bloomberg.com
Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Biggest U.S. Gasoline Pipeline
Michael Jeffers
9 May 2021, 04:49 GMT+8
The operator of the biggest gasoline pipeline in the U.S. shut down operations late Friday following a ransomware attack that threatens to roil energy markets and upend the supply of gas and diesel to the East Coast.
Colonial Pipeline said in a statement Saturday that it “proactively took certain systems offline to contain the threat, which has temporarily halted all pipeline operations, and affected some of our IT systems.” It’s working to get business back to normal.
The cybersecurity firm FireEye Inc. said its Mandiant incident response division is assisting with the investigation. President Joe Biden, who’s spending the weekend at Camp David, was briefed on the incident Saturday morning, the White House said.
Colonial is a key artery for the eastern half of the U.S. It’s the main source of gasoline, diesel and jet fuel for the East Coast with capacity of about 2.5 million barrels a day on its system from Houston as far as North Carolina, and another 900,000 barrels a day to New York.
The attack appeared to use a ransomware group called DarkSide, according to Allan Liska, senior threat analyst at cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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