APT DarkSide attacks US pipeline with ransomware
A few days ago the cybercriminal group DarkSide attacked the Colonial Pipeline in the USA, stole data and shut down the pipeline. A comment from Vladimir Kuskov, Head of Threat Exploration at Kaspersky. Such targeted ransomware attacks have become more and more common in recent years, as Kaspersky analyzes show: The number rose by 2019 percent from 2020 to 767. In addition, there are more and more attacks on industrial companies - also in Germany. In the second half of 2020, 33 percent more ransomware and 43 percent more malicious documents were blocked within industrial control systems than in the first ...
