The US Justice Department said it recovered the majority of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment to hackers after a cyber attack that caused the operator of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline to halt its operations last month.from the Russia-based hacker group is the first undertaken by a specialised ransomware task force created by the Biden administration Justice Department.
It reflects what US officials say is an increasingly aggressive approach to deal with a ransomware threat that in the last month has targeted critical industries around the world.
Colonial officials have said they took their pipeline system offline before the attack could spread to its operating system, and decided to pay a roughlyExtortionists will never see this money: Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco.
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At last a government that fights back. Not enough though. Governments need to employ unconventional means to find these people and kill them.
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