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DarkSide, the group behind the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack that generated fuel shortages and price increases across the United States, is shutting down. This may be due to pressure from the US government.
The cybercriminals’ group blog, that was used for naming and shaming, as well as the website used for ransom and CDN, were all confiscated. Unidentified users transferred funds from their cryptocurrency wallet to unknown accounts. DarkSide reported the events in a message posted and spread on a few hacking websites.
Dmitry Dmitry Smilyanets, a security analyst with Recorded Future Threat Intelligence, was the first to notice the post.
DarkSide stated “We lost access to the public part of our infrastructure, in particular to the blog, payment server, CD…
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