U.S. Declares Emergency in 17 States Over Fuel Pipeline Cyber Attack

The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline's networks has prompted the U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration FMCSA to issue a regional emergency declaration in 17 states and the District of Columbia D.C.. The declaration provides a temporary exemption to Parts 390 through 399 of t...

DarkSide Hit Colonial Pipeline—and Created an Unholy Mess

As the White House gets involved in the response, the group behind the malware is scrambling...

Shining a Light on DARKSIDE Ransomware Operations

Update May 14: Mandiant has observed multiple actors cite a May 13 announcement that appeared to be shared with DARKSIDE RaaS affiliates by the operators of the service. This announcement stated that they lost access to their infrastructure, including their blog, payment, and CDN servers, and wou...

Joint CISA-FBI Cybersecurity Advisory on DarkSide Ransomware

CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA on a ransomware-as-a-service RaaS variant—referred to as DarkSide—recently used in a ransomware attack against a critical infrastructure CI company. Cybercriminal groups use DarkSide to gain access t...

Ransomware Shuts Down US Pipeline

This is a major story: a probably Russian cybercrime group called DarkSide shut down the Colonial Pipeline in a ransomware attack. The pipeline supplies much of the East Coast. This is the new and improved ransomware attack: the hackers stole nearly 100 gig of data, and are threatening to publish...

Colonial Pipeline’s Ransomware Attack Sparks Emergency Declaration

The Biden administration has declared a state of emergency that covers 17 states and Washington D.C. in the wake of the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline Co., and is working with Colonial to restart operations. On Monday morning, FireEye also confirmed to Threatpost that it’s been called...

Ransomware attack shuts down Colonial Pipeline fuel supply

UPDATE 10:47 AM Pacific Time, May 10: At 8:55 AM Pacific Time, the FBI confirmed that Colonial Pipeline was attacked by Darkside. According to a statement posted on Twitter, the FBI said: "The FBI confirms that the Darkside ransomware is responsible for the compromise of Colonial Pipeline network...

Ransomware Cyber Attack Forced the Largest U.S. Fuel Pipeline to Shut Down

Colonial Pipeline, which carries 45% of the fuel consumed on the U.S. East Coast, on Saturday said it halted operations due to a ransomware attack, once again demonstrating how critical infrastructure is vulnerable to cyber attacks. "On May 7, the Colonial Pipeline Company learned it was the vict...

Ransomware Attacks Hit Major Utilities

Two state-owned utility companies in Brazil suffered separate ransomware attacks in the past week, forcing them to shut down some operations and services temporarily, In one case, sensitive data was stolen and dumped online, including network access logins and engineering plans. Centrais Eletrica...

Ransomware group donates $20,000 in BTC to two charities

By Waqas The DarkSide ransomware group says it donated 0.88 BTC each to "Children International" and "The Water Project" charities. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ransomware group donates $20,000 in BTC to two charities...

Ransomware Group Makes Splashy $20K Donation to Charities

The Darkside ransomware group has distinguished itself from its cybercriminal counterparts not by technical innovation, but by slapping a shiny corporate veneer on its attacks. The latest evolution in Darkside’s ransomware-as-a-corporation gimmick is a hefty $20,000 donation that the group made...

Ransomware Has Gone Corporate—and Gotten More Cruel

The DarkSide operators are just the latest group to adopt a veneer of professionalism—while at the same time escalating the consequences of their attacks...

darkside.ru XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.darkside.ru/search/?q=%27%3E%3Csvg%20onload=alert%60XSSPOSED%60%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 30.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 64922 Google Pagerank| 5 VIP website...