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Andy Meek
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Unless operations are restored by Tuesday at the major US fuel pipeline that a Russian gang of cybercriminals hit with a ransomware attack on Friday, problems are going to start mounting, rapidly. First impacting the Atlanta area as well as Tennessee, and then snowballing all the way up to New York State, according to a worst-case scenario prediction that oil market analyst Gaurav Sharma has shared with the BBC.
In other words, the fallout from the attack on Colonial Pipeline, which runs the largest US fuel pipeline system, could get ugly really fast. By late Sunday evening, word was only just beginning to circulate about the culprits believed to be responsible for this attack against what one official described as no less than the “jugular” of the US pipeline system. “It’s the most significant, successful attack on energy infrastructure we know of in the United States.," energy researcher Amy Myers Jaffe told Politico. And rather than well-resourced hackers working with the imprimatur and backing of a nation-state (like China or Iran), experts have zeroed in on an outfit called DarkSide, described as a relatively new but experienced band of Russian hackers who have a quasi-professional operation and basically exploded onto the hacking scene.
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