Attack on the COLONIAL PIPELINE Pipeline operator in the United States may be related to the Darkside group consisting of Russian hackers. This is reported by CNN with reference to sources from the number of former employees of the American administration who worked in the field of cybersecurity.
The interlocutor of the TV channel argues that there is a group of hackers Darkside allegedly from Russia behind the cyberatics. According to him, usually these hackers carry out attacks against non-Russian-language countries. The TV channel stressed that due to the kiberataka, the work of the pipeline providing fuel of 45 percent of the population of the Eastern US coast was suspended. The American authorities have created an interdepartmental group of specialists who will prevent the prevention of interruptions in the supply of fuel.
The fact that the attack allegedly made the Russian criminal grouping of hackers, the sources of the NBC News television channel said. They stated that the attack had occurred not by the state, it was carried out hackers within the “criminal scheme”. In turn, Bloomberg agency notes that Darkside, created in the summer of last year, may be associated with both Russia and Eastern European countries.
May 8 reported that the largest operator of COLONIAL PIPELINE fuel pipelines was subjected to kiberat. The company whose network is the source of almost half of the fuel supplies to the east coast of the United States, attacked the virus-extortionist. Colonial said that it turned off the system to keep threatening. Presumably, the attack made a grouping DARKSIDE. She is known for not attacking state institutions and social facilities, large companies that are able to pay a large ransom are becoming the victims.
US regularly accuses Russia in large-scale cyber attacks on the system of American government departments. Moscow rejects accusations of hacker attacks on American departments and considers them non-profitable.