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Lemmon Valley (United States) (AFP) - Beneath a bone-dry Nevada lakebed, close to the dusty desert where the Burning Man festival is held each year, an ambitious water project is reshaping this pocket of the US West. A giant, natural underground aquifer containing enough water to supply 25,000 homes annually is fed by rainfall and snowmelt from the surrounding volcanic mountains. For the past few years, a little-known company called Vidler Water Resources has been quietly pumping much of this water out through a buried pipeline, under the mountains -- and straight into the rapidly sprawling n...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Justice Department announced Monday that it had recovered more than half of the $4.4 million paid by Colonial Pipeline to Russia-based ransomware extortionists Darkside, who had forced the shutdown of a major fuel network. "Today, we turned the tables on Darkside by going after the entire ecosystem that fuels ransomware and digital extortion attacks, including criminal proceeds in the form of digital currency," said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. The seizure came one month after the group gave the US government a security scare by breaking into the computer syst...
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New York (AFP) - Colonial Pipeline, the US oil conduit shut down for days by a cyber attack earlier this month, said on Tuesday a server had been disrupted but deliveries of petroleum products were not affected. The largest fuel conduit system in the United States that sends gasoline and jet fuel from the Gulf Coast of Texas through the east coast shut down its network on May 7 after a ransomware attack. Colonial last Thursday announced it had restarted its entire network and resumed fuel deliveries to all markets, but in a statement Tuesday said its systems had again been disrupted as they re...
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Washington (AFP) - Russia-based cyber-extortionist Darkside appeared out of business Friday after unknown actors shut down the servers of the group, which had forced the closure of a large US oil pipeline in a multi-million dollar ransomware scam. US cyber security firm Recorded Future said that Darkside had admitted in a web post that it lost access to certain servers used for its web blog and for payments. Recorded Future threat intelligence analyst Dmitry Smilyanets said he found a Russian language comment on a ransomware website ostensibly from "Darksupp", described as the operator of Dark...
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Washington (AFP) - Servers for Darkside were taken down by unknown actors Friday, a week after the cyber extortionist forced the shutdown of a large US oil pipeline in a ransomware scam, a US cyber security firm said. Recorded Future, the security firm, said in a post that the allegedly Russia-based Darkside had admitted in a web post that it lost access to certain servers used for its web blog and for payments. Accessed via TOR on the dark web, the Darkside site address showed a notice saying it could not be found. Recorded Future threat intelligence analyst Dmitry Smilyanets said he found a ...
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Washington (AFP) - The US pipeline network shut down by a cyber attack said Thursday it has restarted its entire network and resumed fuel deliveries to all markets, but gas stations up and down the East Coast were still facing shortages after a wave of panic buying. President Joe Biden hailed the "good news" and urged Americans to remain calm as supplies are restored over the next few days. While "we'll not feel the effects at the pump immediately," there will be a "return to normalcy beginning this weekend and continuing in the next week," Biden told reporters at the White House. Frantic moto...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden said Thursday that Vladimir Putin was not connected to a Russia-based criminal cyber attack on a huge US fuel pipeline but that he will raise the issue at an expected summit. Washington believes a criminal group based in Russia targeted the Colonial pipeline, which delivers gasoline through much of the south eastern United States, with ransomware. Asked if Putin or the Russian government were aware of the attack, Biden paused, then said: "I am confident that I read the report of the FBI accurately and they say they were not, he was not, the government was...
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Washington (AFP) - The major US pipeline network shut down by a cyber attack said Thursday it has resumed fuel deliveries, but gas stations up and down the east coast were still facing shortages after a wave of panic buying. Frantic motorists from Florida to Maryland continued to line up at gas stations trying to fill their tanks and other containers, sending the national average price above $3 a gallon for the first time since late 2014 despite government efforts to ease the supply crunch. Colonial Pipeline said early Thursday said it had "made substantial progress" in resuming deliveries aft...
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Washington (AFP) - The major US pipeline network forced offline by a cyber attack began to reopen Wednesday, its operator said, after a five-day shutdown prompted motorists to frantically stock up on gasoline and some gas stations on the US east coast to close. But Colonial Pipeline warned that it will take "several days" before supplies return to normal. Faced with a growing shortage, late on Wednesday the White House announced that it had waived the Jones Act -- which blocks the use of non-US-flagged vessels, which are cheaper and more plentiful, to transport fuel. It will be "temporary and ...
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Washington (AFP) - Motorists frantically stocking up on gasoline caused more gas stations on the US east coast to close Wednesday, as the government rushed to free up supplies days after the country's main fuel pipeline was shut down by a cyber attack. A dozen states ranging from Florida to Virginia declared a state of emergency, heightening the sense of panic among consumers who flocked to gas stations bearing fuel cans and even plastic trash bags to fill up. A ransomware attack Friday on Colonial Pipeline forced the company to shut down its entire network, and it is not expected to be back ...
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