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DarkSide Suffers ‘Oh, Crap!’ Server Shutdowns

The RaaS that crippled Colonial Pipeline lost the servers it uses to pull off ransomware attacks, while REvil s gonads shrank in response. Ransomware actors promise to give their victims these tools in return for extortion money. Colonial Pipeline Co. shut down its fuel-delivery operations following the ransomware attack a week ago. DarkSide itself launched this wave of back-peddling earlier this week, when the threat actor said it was only after profit, and that it had no intention to cause political, economic or social disruption.

Source: https://threatpost.com/darksides-servers-shutdown/166187/

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