“Our goal is to make money, not to create problems for society,” said blackmailers, who call themselves “apolitical.”
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The group added that it will start “controlling every company that our partners want to encrypt,” which is apparently a reference to the fact that DarkSide, like similar gangs, provides its extortion software to “partners” in exchange for part of any proceeds from the attack.
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FBI investigators have identified a relatively unknown group as the attacker, and US President Joe Biden has assured the hackers that the United States will respond. He added that there was no evidence of the gang’s connection to the Russian state, which was speculated by the American media. The Kremlin strongly rejected it.
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Colonial Pipeline, meanwhile, has resumed operations on part of its oil pipeline network. He will control it manually for now.
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