The hacker group Darkside, which the US authorities blame for the recent cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline, has decided to disband. The Wall Street Journal reports.
Darkside told her colleagues that it has lost access to the infrastructure it uses to operate and will be closed due to pressure from law enforcement and the United States.
According to the newspaper, bands such as Darkside often disband, but later appear under a different name.
Colonial Pipeline is the largest operator of a network of pipelines for the supply of gasoline and diesel in the United States, due to a cyberattack, the company was forced to shut down part of its systems, which led to disruptions in the supply of petroleum products to gas stations in several regions of the United States.
Colonial Pipeline said its systems were infected with a ransomware virus. In such attacks, hackers block access to an organization’s computers and then demand a ransom in order to reopen it. According to Bloomberg, Colonial Pipeline paid hackers almost $ 5 million in cryptocurrency to allow it to regain access to their systems.
US President Joe Biden previously stated that there is no evidence of Russia’s involvement in the hacker attack on the Colonial Pipeline computer networks, although the attackers may be located in Russia. The fact that the attack on the Colonial Pipeline could have been carried out by a group of hackers from Russia called Darkside, CNN reported.
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