WASHINGTON — Russia-based cyber-extortionist Darkside appeared out of business Friday after unknown actors shut down the servers of the group, which had forced the closure of a large US oil pipeline in a multi-million dollar ransomware scam.
US cybersecurity firm Recorded Future said that Darkside had admitted in a web post that it lost access to certain servers used for its web blog and for payments.
Recorded Future threat intelligence analyst Dmitry Smilyanets said he found a Russian language comment on a ransomware website ostensibly from “Darksupp”, described as the operator of Darkside.
“A few hours ago, we lost access to the public part of our infrastructure, namely: Blo…
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