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  Gas shortages at the pumps have spread from the South, all but emptying stations in Washington, D.C., following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation's largest gasoline pipeline. Though the pipeline operator paid a ransom, restoring service was taking time. As Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline reported making "substantial progress" in restoring full service, multiple sources confirmed that the company had paid the criminals a ransom of nearly US$5 million in cryptocurrency for the software decryption key required to unscramble their data network. The ransom -- 75 B...

Gas shortages from cyber attack getting worse in SE United States A gas pump at a gas station in Silver Spring, Md., is out of service, notifying customers they are out of fuel, late Thursday, May 13, 2021. Motorists found gas pumps shrouded in plastic bags at tapped-out service stations across more than a dozen U.S. st Company paid hackers $5 million but restoring service is slow-going. Posted: May 14, 2021 3:36 PM Posted By: Mike Bunge (ASSOCIATED PRESS) - Gas shortages at the pumps have spread from the South, all but emptying stations in Washington, D.C., following a ransomware cyberattac...

A threat prevention firm is claiming to have access to 1.3 million breached RDP servers and their credentials, which were put up for sale on a popular dark web site. New York-headquartered Advanced Intelligence is offering a new free service enabling concerned organizations to check if their RDP servers were part of the trove. Ultimate Anonymity Services (UAS) has been running for around five years on the dark web, specializing in providing access to RDP servers. It’s known to be one of the largest and most reliable such marketplace around. The market for these offerings has exploded over t...

How the Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware hackers In the US last year, ransomware struck more than 100 federal, state and municipal agencies, and more than 500 hospitals and other care centers By Frank Bajak / AP, BOSTON A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. Law enforcement has been largely powerless to stop it. One big reason: Ransomware rackets are dominated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals who are shielded — and sometimes employ...

Russia giving ransomware purveyors safe haven Associated Press BOSTON – A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. Law enforcement has been largely powerless to stop it. One big reason: Ransomware rackets are dominated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals who are shielded – and sometimes employed – by Russian intelligence agencies, according to security researchers, U.S. law enforcement, and now the Biden administration. On Thursday, as the U.S. slap...