{"id":1517,"date":"2021-05-15T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/15\/welcome-to-darkside-and-the-inexorable-rise-of-ransomware-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2021-05-15T15:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T13:37:00","slug":"welcome-to-darkside-and-the-inexorable-rise-of-ransomware-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/15\/welcome-to-darkside-and-the-inexorable-rise-of-ransomware-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to DarkSide \u2013 and the inexorable rise of ransomware | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hacking of a US gas pipeline is proof that cybercrime is now a major industry \u2013 with its own trading markets and even CSR<\/p>\n

On Friday 7 May, Colonial, the quaintly named operator of the pipeline that brings 45% of the US east coast\u2019s gasoline and jet fuel from Texas to New York, announced<\/a> that it had been hacked. My initial assumption was that this was Russian retaliation for the Biden administration\u2019s punitive cyber-attacks on Russia in response to the SolarWinds hack<\/a>. After all, if a pipeline like this isn\u2019t \u201ccritical infrastructure\u201d, what is? If so, were we not witnessing a significant escalation in information warfare between two nuclear-armed powers?<\/p>\n

Fortunately, my overheated imagination turned out to be wrong, but the reality \u2013 in a way \u2013 is almost as interesting. On 10 May, the FBI announced that the attack on Colonial was caused by an outfit called DarkSide, which specialises in ransomware<\/a>, and that the bureau had forced the company to halt its pipeline\u2019s operations so that it could carry out a full investigation into the breach.<\/p>\n

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\nThe hacking of a US gas pipeline is proof that cybercrime is now a major industry \u2013 with its own trading markets and even CSR
\nOn Friday 7 May, Colonial, the quaintly named operator of the pipeline that brings 45% of the US east coast\u2019s gasoline and jet fuel from Texas to New York, announced that it had been hacked. My initial assumption was that this was Russian retaliation for the Biden administration\u2019s punitive cyber-attacks on Russia in response to the SolarWinds hack. After all, if a pipeline like this isn\u2019t \u201ccritical infrastructure\u201d, what is? If so, were we not witnessing a significant escalation in information warfare between two nuclear-armed powers?
\nFortunately, my overheated imagination turned out to be wrong, but the reality \u2013 in a way \u2013 is almost as interesting. On 10 May, the FBI announced that the attack on Colonial was caused by an outfit called DarkSide, which specialises in ransomware, and that the bureau had forced the company to halt its pipeline\u2019s operations so that it could carry out a full investigation into the breach. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hacking of a US gas pipeline is proof that cybercrime is now a major industry \u2013 with its own trading markets and even CSR On Friday 7 May, Colonial, the quaintly named operator of the pipeline that brings 45% of the US east coast\u2019s gasoline and jet fuel from Texas to New York, announced …<\/p>\n

Welcome to DarkSide \u2013 and the inexorable rise of ransomware | John Naughton<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}