Gas Prices After The Cyber Attack (by Russia?)

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Does everybody have me on ignore or am I losing it? Thought I posted about the recovery but idk.

They did pay, restored from backups, and resumed pipeline Operations Wednesday night.
 

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Does everybody have me on ignore or am I losing it? Thought I posted about the recovery but idk.

They did pay, restored from backups, and resumed pipeline Operations Wednesday night.

Hopefully they fixed their security issues so its not round two next week from a different group.
 

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Hopefully they fixed their security issues so its not round two next week from a different group.

I’m sure they fixed it.. til our government says “ let them in again “ I try not to think that will happen... BUT... can’t put anything past these people anymore
 

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Hopefully they fixed their security issues so its not round two next week from a different group.

These sort of "security issues" don't get fixed overnight. It takes a long time to shift the mentality at a company. They likely didn't even have anything specifically bad that was exploited, all too often all it takes is a dumbass opening a phishing email and giving away their credentials. Training every user is the fix and it takes forever to drill into their heads. Rebuilding infrastructure to mitigate those simple avenues takes months/years and lots of money that businesses don't want to spend overnight, unfortunately.
 

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Fox News reported that Colonial paid a $5M ransom to the hackers to get back online.
YUP!
Now I "suspect" that this may happen quite often now. This is what happens with weak leadership.
Just like the weaklings that voted Biden.

Remember Biden's slogan,.........
Build Back Better
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Build back better?!?!?! With what?!?!?
Higher gas and food prices?? Socialism?!?!
**** outta here with that rubbish!!!!!!
 

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Latest I heard was it only affected Colonial's accounting department. The pipeline never needed to be turned off. The company was worried about billing issues with the system down.

Also, many online hacking groups said they have never heard of Darkside, and feel this was a CIA inside-job.
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Latest I heard was it only affected Colonial's accounting department. The pipeline never needed to be turned off. The company was worried about billing issues with the system down.

Also, many online hacking groups said they have never heard of Darkside, and feel this was a CIA inside-job.


Your post does not scan.

If the billing mechanism of your local gas station was broken, would they need to turn off the pump or should they just give out free gas?

Just because you have not heard of a secret criminal organization, does it follow that the CIA committed a crime. If you are going to make such a wild claim, back it up with at least a scrap of facts.
 

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Screenshot attached for billing^

"RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!!"

Believe what you want, about "hacker" involvement. CIA is not your friend.

Your post does not scan.

If the billing mechanism of your local gas station was broken, would they need to turn off the pump or should they just give out free gas?

Just because you have not heard of a secret criminal organization, does it follow that the CIA committed a crime. If you are going to make such a wild claim, back it up with at least a scrap of facts.
 

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I just bought gas at Costco late yesterday for my wife's vehicle and paid $2.75 for regular.
 

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Screenshot attached for billing^

"RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!!"

Believe what you want, about "hacker" involvement. CIA is not your friend.
So with zero evidence of CIA involvement, it must be them because of your unsupported feeling it was them.

That is a pitiful excuse for a position.

On the other hand, we have direct forensic evidence of actors in Russia accessing these systems. We have logs showing the crypto malware reaching out to command and control servers in Russia. We know that Russian government has not and will not prosecute the bad actors, leading to a simple conclusion that it was Russians who committed this crime with the protection of the Russian government.

Surprise, it was Russians.
 

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Latest I heard was it only affected Colonial's accounting department. The pipeline never needed to be turned off. The company was worried about billing issues with the system down.

Also, many online hacking groups said they have never heard of Darkside, and feel this was a CIA inside-job.

Correct, but that is standard incident response procedure. Shut down and prevent the spread as a precaution. Shit would have been really bad if it spread to the operations side.

What "many online hacking groups" are you referring to? Security researchers have published many articles about the group and their affiliation with other well known groups. Not refuting it is CIA, but thats pretty much possible with every group nowadays.
 

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Correct, but that is standard incident response procedure. Shut down and prevent the spread as a precaution. Shit would have been really bad if it spread to the operations side.

What "many online hacking groups" are you referring to? Security researchers have published many articles about the group and their affiliation with other well known groups. Not refuting it is CIA, but thats pretty much possible with every group nowadays.

yup. If it would have hit operations it would have stayed down for a LONG time
 

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on road diesel by the tanker load was hovering in the 2.50/gallon range, it's been in the low - mid 2.70s since last week
 

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Correct, but that is standard incident response procedure. Shut down and prevent the spread as a precaution. Shit would have been really bad if it spread to the operations side.

What "many online hacking groups" are you referring to? Security researchers have published many articles about the group and their affiliation with other well known groups. Not refuting it is CIA, but thats pretty much possible with every group nowadays.
He is referring to the criminal hacking groups/state sponsors inside Russia that deny any ties to criminal activity.

Anyone who has any background in IT security knows that Russia and China are massive hubs of criminal hacking and anyone who would deny it is either an uninformed and guiltless, a liar who is supporting the criminal activity or mentally deficient.
 

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So with zero evidence of CIA involvement, it must be them because of your unsupported feeling it was them.

That is a pitiful excuse for a position.

On the other hand, we have direct forensic evidence of actors in Russia accessing these systems. We have logs showing the crypto malware reaching out to command and control servers in Russia. We know that Russian government has not and will not prosecute the bad actors, leading to a simple conclusion that it was Russians who committed this crime with the protection of the Russian government.

Surprise, it was Russians.

Well, taking into account the Vault7 and Shadowbrokers leaks, its very likely that the tools used by this group were originally developed or based on tools originally developed by the CIA. So there is that.

Although, I do believe it was the Russians on this event.
 

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Well, taking into account the Vault7 and Shadowbrokers leaks, its very likely that the tools used by this group were originally developed or based on tools originally developed by the CIA. So there is that.

Although, I do believe it was the Russians on this event.

Software made for war, assault software? The cyber war is interesting, it's like Fight Club. Going strong but no one talks about it. Not very sexy though, no missiles no planes. Let's watch the fireworks instead.
 

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Software made for war, assault software? The cyber war is interesting, it's like Fight Club. Going strong but no one talks about it. Not very sexy though, no missiles no planes. Let's watch the fireworks instead.
Yeah, it is a relatively quiet fight but people do take notice when it starts to hit their wallet. Watching fuel jump to $7.00 a gallon should be a wake-up call to both the consumer and to corporate America. These hackers are disabling vital services and goods until ransoms of multi-millions of dollars. We all know it's happened and continues to be a threat. If it escalates, Americans WILL be talking about it more. Imagine if heating oil next winter got impacted. Will it happen? Probably not, BUT the possibility remains and that's just one critical example. I really hope corporations get on the fast track to vastly improve their systems security and protection from hackers, because the floodgate has been opened and it's probably just a matter of time before the next "big one" shuts down some critical service affecting Americans. JMO.
 

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