“For the third day in a row, my local gas station is empty,” Wolf Blitzer tweet complained. The Biden cheerleader shouldn’t complain. He promoted the people responsible and he voted for this. Elections have consequences.
The Daily Mail reported that 90% of the D.C. gas stations are out of gas. This is despite Colonial pumping up deliveries.
Panic buying is emptying out the stations. The average national gasoline price climbed to almost $3.04 on Friday, which is the most expensive since October 2014, when Barack Obama was in office. Although, he is likely in the office again.
DarkSide, the newby ransomware hackers, claim they will shut down. They claim they’re shutting down because of US government probes.
The cyber gang sent a message to partners overnight, according to cyber experts, claiming they had lost access to servers used for its web blog and to a cryptocurrency account it uses to pay affiliates in the wake of the Colonial attack.
“Servers were seized, the money of advertisers and founders was transferred to an unknown account,” the message read.
Is this legitimate? Our intel agencies can’t find a wy out of a paperbag.
The WSJ also reported DarkSide was shutting down. [For now].
Darksupp also reported cryptocurrency funds were withdrawn from the payment server and would be split between itself and its associates.
This is very suspicious. Over $5 million?
RUSSIA PROPAGANDA OUTFIT CLAIMS IT’S THE CIA
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.
WikiLeaks in 2017 shed light on the Umbrage team, Zerohedge reports. 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.”
For now, it’s just a conspiracy theory or a planted story by Russians trying to mess with us. It sounds like Russian disinformation, but Biden let them off the hook and said they had nothing to do with it. Really?
Do we know anything about DarkSide prior to this hack?
As of two days ago:
% stations without gasoline, 9pm CT, change since last update:
AL 9% NC
DC 79% +4%
DE 4% -1%
FL 30% NC
GA 50% +1%
KY 3% NC
LA 0% NC
MD 41% +2%
MS 7% -1%
NC 71% +2%
NJ 1% NC
SC 52% NC
TN 33% NC
TX 0% NC
VA 52% +2%
WV 7% NC— Patrick De Haan ⛽️📊 (@GasBuddyGuy) May 14, 2021
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Notice that Texas and Louisiana weren’t affected. Does anyone think DarkSide would have gone after that big of a target if Donald Trump was still President? Does anyone think that Hamas would be firing missiles into Israel if Donald Trump was President? Does anyone believe that we would be paying people not to go back to work if Donald Trump was President? Elections have consequences and Democrats ALWAYS produce weak leaders. America needs a strong Leader who can deal with Big Problems and it needs to curtail the power of Governors, Mayors, and Bureaucrats who constantly create problems. We need Administrators and Managers in Government, not wannabe tyrants who never seem to have an eye on the ball. Was this a CIA False Flag Op? Do you really think the Traitor Joe Administration would come clean if the Government was involved? One of America’s greatest problems is schools are indoctrinating kids in faux science instead of training them to be hard core Computer Geeks. My first question for Colonial would was who was the guy with “Password” for a password. Remember, the DNC was broken into because Podesta’s password was reported to be “password”. The only secure computer is one locked in a room and not connected to the Internet. When companies like Colonial screw up like this, senior Managers should be fire for cause and lose all stock and Golden Parachutes, i.e. there should be accountability!
Most likely the ChiComs firing a warning shot that if the US opposes their emergence as the world’s great super power they can shut down our economy overnight.
It was really an odd hack. Apparently it was the Billing computers that were affected, so the pipeline shut down on account of billing issues. So it wouldn’t surprise me if the CIA was behind it. It’s just too damn easy to blame “Russia” for literally everything that goes on in the world because Who would listen to Russia’s claims about anything.
It’s not all that difficult to secure computer infrastructure systems. I’d be curious how many of these companies have IT personnel are part of the different VISA programs.
Klaus Schwab‘s World Economic Forum (WEF) tweeted 2/26/2021 that “Lockdowns are quietly improving cities around the world,” accompanied by a video showing deserted streets, empty factories, and grounded planes. After backlash, they deleted it. This lack of fuel looks like WEF’s work.