Russian criminal group may be responsible for Colonial pipeline ransomware attack

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NEW: A major U.S. fuel pipeline that was shut down after a ransomware attack may have been struck by a Russian criminal group, two sources familiar with the matter say.

may have been struck by a Russian criminal group, two sources familiar with the matter said Sunday.

The system runs from Texas to New Jersey and transports 45 percent of the East Coast’s fuel supply. According to CNBC, the pipeline remained mostly offline Sunday. But the fact that Colonial had to shut down the country’s largest gasoline pipeline underscores just how vulnerable American’s cyber infrastructure is to both criminals and national adversaries, such as Russia, China and Iran, experts say.

 

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Foreign countries do things like this when you have incompetent leadership

So the Russian want to play dirty, eh? Well, it's time for the US to strike back with our own hacking team and disrupt their critical infrastructure. It's an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Pay back is a b... Give them heck,or hell

trump probably gave info. he had access to a lot of info

Raise gas prices and Biden gets blamed. Sooner or later we might get tired of his crap and make Putin go through some things.

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