Cyber Security

The U.S. Special Operations Command is investing in new technology as warfare evolves, SOCOM commander Gen. Richard Clarke said earlier this week.

Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount faced mounting pressure from Congressional lawmakers Wednesday after he admitted the company made a payment to the hackers responsible for a ransomware attack that knocked the pipeline offline for several days.

The Russian ransomware group responsible for the Colonial Pipeline hack, Darkside, reaped just over $90 million in Bitcoin ransom payments from 47 victims before announcing it would cease operations, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced that he was signing a law intended to penalize local governments that do not keep up with cybersecurity training requirements one week after ransomware attack shut down a major U.S. pipeline.

Supplies at thousands of gas stations in dozens of Southern states were drained after a cyberattack forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline earlier this month.

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Gas delivered via Colonial Pipeline Co.’s system is reaching consumers in all the states it serves following a days-long network shutdown, the company announced Saturday.

A bipartisan group of members of the House Homeland Security Committee introduced legislation that would bolster security for pipelines after the gas shortage caused by this week’s Colonial Pipeline shutdown

A group of pro-Iran Twitter accounts flooded the platform with “massive surges of unmitigated antisemitism” and disinformation, enough to get it trending, as Israel stepped up military strikes against the Tehran-backed Hamas terrorists in Gaza responsible for launching hundreds of rockets at civilian targets this week, according to a nonprofit, politically neutral research institution.

The ransomware group deemed responsible for the dayslong shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline said it would cease operations, cybersecurity experts said Friday.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that gas supply in areas affected by the Colonial Pipeline shutdown would take “a few days” to fully return to normal, and urged consumers to “only buy the gas they need” to speed up the process.

Toshiba Tec France Imaging System said on Friday that DarkSide, the hacking group blamed for crippling a major U.S. pipeline company, had targeted it in a ransomware attack during the night of May 4.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that companies impacted by ransomware attacks should not pay money to hackers following reports Colonial Pipeline made a payment to regain access to some of its systems.