Posted on 05/17/2021 7:38:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Cybercrime group DarkSide said it has lost control of its web servers and some of the money it’s made off ransom payments after the FBI confirmed that the gang was behind the $5 million ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline last week that spurred gas shortages and panic buying across the Southeast.
Analysts at security research firm FireEye said that messages are circulating in multiple cybercriminal forums that say DarkSide has shut down amid pressure from the US and law enforcement.
“A few hours ago, we lost access to the public part of our infrastructure, namely: Blog. Payment server. DOS servers,” read a post online by user Darksupp, the operator of DarkSide, according to The Record.
The announcement was posted Thursday evening on cybercrime underground community Exploit Forum, according to Recorded Future threat intelligence analyst Dmitry Smilyanets.
It remains unclear if the announcement is a ruse for the group to escape attention or avoid paying its partners. Cybersecurity analysts warned that anything posted by DarkSide operators should be taken with a grain of salt.
The FBI confirmed that DarkSide was behind the $5 million ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline.EPA/JUSTIN LANE
Darksupp also claimed that cryptocurrency funds were withdrawn from the hacker group’s payment server, which hosted ransom payments made by victims such as Colonial Pipeline, the report said. The funds, which the group is typically supposed to split between itself and its partners, were transferred to an unknown wallet, Darksupp said, according to The Record.
Mandiant Threat Intelligence, a subsidiary of FireEye, said DarkSide shared a statement Thursday with its criminal partners announcing that it would shut down. The message has been shared in multiple cybercrime circles,
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I don’t understand the world.
This seems like Willie Sutton putting out a press release: “While I continue to be on the run after my latest bank robbery, I have hit a few snags and I am having trouble getting access to transportation. Additionally, one of the members of my gang managed to misplace some of the money we took from National Bank of Atlanta. But we will carry on.”
What I need is a good Dark Web search engine.
We will never know what the truth is.
Conspiracy minded me: It was a Government operation that is going to be used to justify surveilance/tighter regulations regarding cryptocurrency usage.
So instead of half The Big Guy gets the whole 5 million?
Sounds like the old adage “There is no honor among thieves !” just got another proof.
Maybe one or some of them is taking a page out of the “Lufthansa Theft (see Goodfellas movie)” , soon bodies maybe be turning up in Russian & East European meatlockers
Correct.
And also to further damage the oil and gas industry here in America.
None of this would be a problem if more Americans drove EV’s, right?
Anonymous appropriated DarkSide’s money. The FBI doesn’t know anything. Any information the FBI gives is just a pass through from other hackers.
Maybe the aren’t
***Lost control of its web servers and some of the money*** it’s made off ransom payments
Because they would actually have to kill someone other than women and children, be it by burning or sniping.
Thank you NSA.....
Wouldn’t doubt it.
It remains unclear if the announcement is a ruse for the group to escape attention or avoid paying its partners. Cybersecurity analysts warned that anything posted by DarkSide operators should be taken with a grain of salt.
Their main concern should be, do the people hunting them now use quicklime?
They promote ideals of biden and the dims
I think Biden helped pay them off... no proof, just a feeling. And our FBI and ‘intelligence’? They’re too busy looking for some white guy who used the ‘N’ word to protect the country...
Commies play this game well...
Perhaps they are connected to the DNC.
Perhaps the FBI is concerned about massive sophisticated retaliation it could not control.
My hope is that the FBI was instrumental in DS losing control of its system and picked up some coin while doing so. That would have been the smart move, let unpaid DS partners take care of the wet side.
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