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Darkside—the ransomware group that disrupted gasoline distribution throughout a large swath of the US this week—has gone darkish, leaving it unclear if the group is ceasing, suspending, or altering its operations or is solely orchestrating an exit rip-off.
On Thursday, all eight of the darkish web pages Darkside used to speak with the general public went down, they usually stay down as of publication time. In a single day, a submit attributed to Darkside claimed, with out offering any proof, that the group’s web site and content material distribution infrastructure had been seized by regulation enforcement, together with the cryptocurrency it had acquired from victims.
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“In the mean time, these servers can’t be accessed by way of SSH, and the internet hosting panels have been blocked,” the submit acknowledged, in accordance with a translation of the Russian-language submit printed Friday by safety agency Intel471. “The internet hosting assist service does not present any info besides ‘on the request of regulation enforcement authorities.’ As well as, a few hours after the seizure, funds from the fee server (belonging to us and our purchasers) have been withdrawn to an unknown account.”
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