Pipeline Hackers have lost access to their crypto wallet
The group who had hacked the pipeline in North America seems to have lost access to the ransom.
The operator of the ransomware group Darkside said Friday that it had lost control of its servers and some of the money it made through ransom payments, Recorded Future Threat Intelligence Analyst Dmitry Smilyanets reported. "A few hours ago we lost access to the public part of our infrastructure, namely: Blog. Payment server. DOS server," said Darksupp, the operator of the Darkside ransomware, in a post discovered by Smilyanets. Darkside's operator also said cryptocurrency funds were being withdrawn from its payment server, which was hosting ransom payments. Darkside was behind the ransomware attack on the main pipeline that transports gasoline and diesel to the US east coast, Colonial Pipeline, which went down late last week and cut gas and diesel shipments to many states. This sparked panic buying and drove the average price of gasoline in the US to rise above $ 3 a gallon for the first time since 2014. Colonial Pipeline has reportedly paid the ransom, on the order of nearly US $ 5 million in undetectable cryptocurrency, to the hackers who forced the operator to shut down the main U.S. fuel pipeline, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing two sources with knowledge of the transaction.