DarkSide Hackers Reportedly Closing Down After Retaliation Routs Their Infrastructure

The hacker group responsible for the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline that caused fuel shortages in the Southeast US appears to be shutting down after all its recent success, according to WSJ. The operator of the ransomware group Darkside, believed to originate in Eastern Europe or Russia, has been unable to access its computer systems to conduct cyber attacks.

Not everyone is convinced DarkSide is a legitimate hacking group but rather a cover for a rogue group of CIA hackers.

Natalya Kaspersky, the founder and former CEO of security software firm Kaspersky Lab, made an explosive suggestion in an interview with Russian state-owned domestic news agency RIA Novosti that CIA hackers were actually behind the Colonial Pipeline attack, reported RT News.

Kaspersky said the Umbrage team, which is part of the Remote Development Branch under the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence, can mask its hackers as outside ones and leave behind the "Fingerprints" of the external hackers when it breaks into electronic devices.

At the time, USA Today said CIA operatives "May have been cataloging hacking methods from outside hackers, including in Russia, that would have allowed the agency to mask their identity by employing the method during espionage."

Kaspersky pointed out a list "Of the countries under whose hacker groups this UMBRAGE is disguised - Russia, North Korea, China, Iran." She claimed that "Therefore, it cannot be said with certainty that a hacker group carried out the attack from Russia and that it was not a provocation made themselves from there, or from some other country."

They WEREN'T REAL. I talked with hackers on every hacking tor forum I could find and they all said the same thing GOVERNMENT ENTITY. REvil, doppelpaymer those are REAL HACKING GROUPS. darkside? Never even existed on TOR. 

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