american infrastructure, when the announcement was made that darkside was dissolving itself and their systems were taken offline and they were no longer going to exist, the entity that announced all of that was revil, this other criminal hacking group also based in russia that is now blamed not for an attack on critical fuel supply lines in the united states, that was darkside. revil is blamed for attacking our critical food supply lines instead. and the point of that is that maybe we don t really need to learn the fine distinctions between all these stupidly named russian criminal gangs because maybe they re all interlinked russian criminal gangs and the main thing we need to know about them rather than any supposed fine distinction between different entities among them, maybe the thing we need to know about them is that they are russian organized crime gangs that are mounting very consequential transnational attacks, particularly targeting the united states, and they are
apparently being allowed to operate by the government of russia, because what s there not to like, right? what s there not for the kremlin to like? an american critical infrastructure being picked off at will, while the u.s. government looks helpless against it and millions of dollars flow into russia as you know, as ransom, as payment for the privilege of them shutting us down whenever they feel like it. what s not to like if you re the russian government here? if you re the russian government, you don t necessarily want to get caught shutting down major u.s. fuel pipelines and food supply lines. but if you can arrange essentially for criminal gangs to do that and protect them while they do it, all the benefit flows to you and none of the consequences. provided none of the consequences actually flow to you. so how long is this going to keep going on? the white house today reiterated that this is something that they are raising directly with the
offline, taking away their ability to operate, to continue to effectuate these ransomware attacks, potentially taking away their money. who did that if it wasn t the u.s. government? don t know. did that punchback actually happen? was darkside lying about having all of their resources taken offline and losing their ransom money? were they lying because they wanted to take the heat off themselves because they got so much negative attention for that very, very consequential attack? we don t know. it s interesting though, now, now that we ve got another major attack on another major piece of american infrastructure, when the announcement was made that darkside was dissolving itself and their systems were taken offline and they were no longer going to exist, the entity that announced all of that was revil, this other criminal hacking group also based in russia that is now blamed not for an attack on critical fuel supply lines in the united states, that was darkside. revil is blamed for att