Colonial Pipeline attack: Clock ticks for gas supply

[MOS0231]

Really? You don’t see any single sided partisan opinions here? I believe the majority of people on both sides are full of ****, and too much anger. The only way anything good will ever happen will be from intelligent moderates that understand working together and meeting somewhere in the middle makes sense.
This ransom ware has nothing to do with politics, just theft and greed. And it’s been a multi billion dollar business for more than three years now.

Have you read Ted Koppel's Lights Out book?
He notes more than a few cyber security experts (some former NSA) have stated other state nations are in our electrical grid looking for an exploit.
Or, just an opportune time.

Now that we know the ransom has been paid, I wonder what lessons learned will be reported? Or will they at all?

 

[user 7000]

 

[Helen Back]

More than 120 retired generals and admirals sign open letter questioning Biden's mental health and backing election fraud claims

The left's response?

Former U.S. Military Leaders Sign Bizarre Open Letter Pushing Election Lies

Former U.S. Military Leaders Sign Bizarre Open Letter Pushing Election Lies | HuffPost

Meanwhile, back in reality..



Biden flubs infrastructure financing idea: '700 billion, and a trillion, 300 million billion dollars'

Biden flubs infrastructure financing idea: '700 billion, and a trillion, 300 million billion dollars' (msn.com)

'You guys are bad!' Biden tells reporters 'I'm not supposed to be answering all these questions' after Psaki admitted she advises against him taking impromptu press queries

Joe Biden tells reporters 'I'm not supposed to be answering all these questions' | Daily Mail Online

@Brent S @kevin321 You guys think you are so much more intelligent than the rest of us; so I ask, do you really not see that there is a puppet in the WH, and America is under attack by the puppet masters? As Americans, not democrats, but Americas, are you not willing to look at this objectively? The President of the United States is taking orders from a WH spokesperson!!!

 

[Schattentarn]

https://www.zerohedge.com/commoditi...ery-has-commenced-majority-markets-we-service

What Colonial did was to sell the rest of us out. Now these same people which cannot be stopped by the FBI or will not be stopped by the FBI will attack everything, knowing those companies will do the easy thing and cave in. Paying a ransom should just be illegal.

 

[Schattentarn]

More than 120 retired generals and admirals sign open letter questioning Biden's mental health and backing election fraud claims

The left's response?

Former U.S. Military Leaders Sign Bizarre Open Letter Pushing Election Lies

Former U.S. Military Leaders Sign Bizarre Open Letter Pushing Election Lies | HuffPost

Meanwhile, back in reality..



Biden flubs infrastructure financing idea: '700 billion, and a trillion, 300 million billion dollars'

Biden flubs infrastructure financing idea: '700 billion, and a trillion, 300 million billion dollars' (msn.com)

'You guys are bad!' Biden tells reporters 'I'm not supposed to be answering all these questions' after Psaki admitted she advises against him taking impromptu press queries

Joe Biden tells reporters 'I'm not supposed to be answering all these questions' | Daily Mail Online

@Brent S @kevin321 You guys think you are so much more intelligent than the rest of us; so I ask, do you really not see that there is a puppet in the WH, and America is under attack by the puppet masters? As Americans, not democrats, but Americas, are you not willing to look at this objectively? The President of the United States is taking orders from a WH spokesperson!!!

Trump is right. POS Biden is worse than Jimmy Carter.

 

[MOS0231]

What Colonial did was to sell the rest of us out. Now these same people which cannot be stopped by the FBI or will not be stopped by the FBI will attack everything, knowing those companies will do the easy thing and cave in. Paying a ransom should just be illegal.

How do you figure?
IF they are based out of Russia, is Russia going to help the FBI find them?
If Colonial did not pay, they may have ran the risk of the shut down for a longer period of time. That would of been even worse not only for them, but the country as a whole.
Yes, it is possible this group will attack other companies (currently reading there is a trailer trucking company that is under a ransomware attack).
As I asked before, will we see the lessons learned (i.e. review of the now unencrypted log files to see their movements in the system, or if they deleted or covered their tracks, they are that good, the FBI may not ever find them)?
What OS was used?
What vulnerability did they exploit to gain root/superuser access?
Did they phish one of the employees unknowingly?
Those are the kind of things companies need to know in order to lock down their systems, and prevent such attacks in the future.

 

[Dani]

 

[Amish Heart]

So their gas prices will go up to cover the payoff?

 

[Oddcaliber]

Most likely.

 

[Dani]

So their gas prices will go up to cover the payoff?

You know it. . . $5 million is a lot of money to the everyday worker to pay off.

 

[Digout]

The Ransom will become a Tax deduction, a cost of doing Business.

 

[DrPrepper1]

Nothing can even stay on a topic without the political garbage thrown in nowadays here. This used to be a really good site to talk about ideas.
on a better note, the pipeline did restart today at 5pm. Don’t know if the ransom had to be paid or not. I drove past dozens of gas stations today that had no gas at all. Finally found one with premium only and a 30$ limit so I topped off at least. So in a few days all should be back to normal until the next hack. And I guarantee that with the amount of money made by these criminals there will be many more to come.

I just found out there is a gas shortage and it’s over! I don’t watch the news because it extreme on both sides. I just want to prep for whatever is needed. I guess I missed this one. I am in Texas, but if I had known I would have kept a close eye on it. I am glad you were paying attention and made it home.

 

[Amish Heart]

If the ransom could just be a tax deduction, why were Texans charged huge amounts of money from their electric company when they lost power during the polar vortex freeze? When a company is losing money...disaster, ransom, higher price of supply to make goods....they don't just "give the government less in taxes", they raise their prices.

 

[Dave2001]

Im REALLY concerned about hackers on our elec grid and natural gas pipelines too, i think this was just a start!!!

 

[Dave2001]

https://www.zerohedge.com/commoditi...ery-has-commenced-majority-markets-we-service

Shouldve put a 5 million BOUNTY on the hackers heads and STOP this sort of mess!!!!!

 

[Amish Heart]

You know, that would of made more sense. They are going to do it again.

 

[Mountain trapper]

So their gas prices will go up to cover the payoff?

Pipeline companies don’t set the price of motor vehicle fuel, any more than oil companies do. Supply and demand set the price, plus oil and fuel are commodities and traded on the open market like any other commodity is.

 

[Amish Heart]

Then why did it show that some places in Virginia was $7 a gallon?

 

[Mountain trapper]

Price gouging, greed and demand outstripped supply. Nothing new.

 

[Dani]

U.S. capital running out of gas, even as Colonial Pipeline recovers

The U.S. capital was running out of gasoline on Friday, even as the country's largest fuel pipeline network ramped up deliveries following a cyberattack and Washington officials assured motorists that supplies would return to normal soon.

The six-day Colonial Pipeline shutdown was the most disruptive cyberattack on record, demonstratinghow vulnerable vital U.S. infrastructure is to cybercriminals.

Widespread panic buying continued two days after pipeline network restarted, leaving filling stations across the U.S. Southeast out of gas even in areas far from the pipeline. U.S. pump prices are at their highest in years, two weeks before the peak summer driving season kicks off, with traffic growing after the pandemic. The average national gasoline price has climbed to almost $3.04, the most expensive since October 2014, the American Automobile Association said.

On Friday gas station outages in Washington, D.C., climbed to 87%, from 79% the day before, tracking firm GasBuddy said. President Joe Biden assured motorists supplies should start returning to normal by this weekend.

"Most of these states/areas with outages have continued to see panicked buying, which is likely a contributing factor to the slow-ish recovery thus far," said GasBuddy's Patrick De Haan. "It will take a few weeks."

Colonial Pipeline announced late Thursday it had restarted its entire pipeline system linking refineries on the Gulf Coast to markets along the eastern seaboard.

Some states experienced modest improvements but still had a lot of gasoline outages. About 70% of gas stations in North Carolina were without fuel, with outages in around 50% of stations in Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia.

The hacking group believed responsible for the attack, DarkSide, said it had hacked four other companies including a Toshiba subsidiary in Germany
U.S. capital running out of gas, even as Colonial Pipeline recovers

 

[Dani]

Price gouging, greed and demand outstripped supply. Nothing new.

Heard on the radio this afternoon that one gas station was charging $10 a gallon. Think it was over in Georgia.

 

[Dani]

Colonial Pipeline hackers DarkSide have reportedly lost control of money

Cybercrime group DarkSide said it has lost control of its web servers and some of the money it’s made off of 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.

“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 out its partners. Cybersecurity analysts warned that anything posted by DarkSide operators should be taken with a grain of salt.

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.
Colonial Pipeline hackers DarkSide have lost control of money, will shut down

 

[Mountain trapper]

Heard on the radio this afternoon that one gas station was charging $10 a gallon. Think it was over in Georgia.

I think we'll see a lot more pricing like this. Only next time it'll be created by our new communist/socialist regime. Thanks Biden supporters.

 

[M0del_31]

I'm starting to believe all this pipeline news was a hoax, fake news if you will. I've seen no evidence that the pipeline has been shutdown. I think I'll need to see evidence presented in a court case before I'll accept it as evidence. I'm not sure anybody can find "standing" to bring a case anyway. Maybe the FBI can posture and kick down the wrong door or investigate something. I'm almost certain there is some social injustice going on with the pipeline but I don't really know how to play that card.

 

[Schattentarn]

How do you figure?
IF they are based out of Russia, is Russia going to help the FBI find them?
If Colonial did not pay, they may have ran the risk of the shut down for a longer period of time. That would of been even worse not only for them, but the country as a whole.
Yes, it is possible this group will attack other companies (currently reading there is a trailer trucking company that is under a ransomware attack).
As I asked before, will we see the lessons learned (i.e. review of the now unencrypted log files to see their movements in the system, or if they deleted or covered their tracks, they are that good, the FBI may not ever find them)?
What OS was used?
What vulnerability did they exploit to gain root/superuser access?
Did they phish one of the employees unknowingly?
Those are the kind of things companies need to know in order to lock down their systems, and prevent such attacks in the future.

Because now every hacker all over the world will target our infrastructure and expect to be paid. Maybe Washington D.C. and NYC will run out, that would be fitting.

 

[Helen Back]

Why only $5M? As soon as I heard that, I thought BS. They almost crippled America and all they wanted was $5M?!?!?!? That's like robbing a bank by handing a teller a note demanding $100.

 

[MOS0231]

Because now every hacker all over the world will target our infrastructure and expect to be paid. Maybe Washington D.C. and NYC will run out, that would be fitting.

Ransomeware attacks have been going on for years now.
The fact the Darkside infrastructure has been taken down, indicates a counter attack by someone.
That is going to hackers take pause, re-evaluate. Then they will try again.
The question is, will those targets do what it takes to secure their systems.

 

[user 7368]

Behind the whole could also be the grouping around Klaus Schwab, this dirty business association is capable of many things and one should not underestimate that.

Interestingly, the WEF had already been planning for some time to hold another simulation on June 9. According to official information, "Cyber Polygon 2021" is about the security of digital data traffic, which has exploded in the course of the Corona crisis. In the course of a fictitious cyber attack, participants from numerous countries are to respond in real time "to a targeted attack on a company's supply chain."

A 2019 simulation game called "Event 201" simulated a global pandemic and, in the process, played out how a global health crisis could be used to merge global corporations with state structures. Moreover, the focus at the time was not on health, such as strengthening the immune system, but rather on creating rapid approaches to combat misinformation and flooding the media with information. Also in his book "Covid-19: The Great Reset," WEF founder Klaus Schwab describes the global fight against the virus as a favorable opportunity for a complete reboot of the world. The WEF plays a central role in the current transformation process of society. Critics also fear an expansion of surveillance at "Cyber Polygon 2021" and an occasion to further expand the global power system.

 

[jimLE]

ive been keeping up with pipeline news only somewhat.on account i new it aint going to be pretty.gas prices here in east tx. have already started to go up at,at least 2 main gas stations.shell is one of them.i bought me 3-5 gallon gas cans the other day.but seeing how im living in a apartment now.i need to find a good location to keep them once i fill them up with gas.

 

[Dave2001]

I'm starting to believe all this pipeline news was a hoax, fake news if you will. I've seen no evidence that the pipeline has been shutdown. I think I'll need to see evidence presented in a court case before I'll accept it as evidence. I'm not sure anybody can find "standing" to bring a case anyway. Maybe the FBI can posture and kick down the wrong door or investigate something. I'm almost certain there is some social injustice going on with the pipeline but I don't really know how to play that card.

Last time we had a so called gas shortage here i happen to know they had so much gas at distribution centers the tanks were full and they were parking tank trucks in fields just to store the extra gas they had. Truckdriver friend said they would not allow them to deliver all the gas they had! I went and looked, i bet they had over 1000 trucks parked in a field!!!