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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by arthurcolle on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:00PM (#27718761)
FWIW though (and I don't have easily available "sources") there was this immediate retaliation where Biden was like "we will completely prosecute these offenders" and within days DarkSide PR department said "Hey sorry we didn't mean to disrupt core services, we just want money" (sic)

So it's a spectrum

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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by covidthrow on Friday July 02, 2021 @10:36PM (#27718930)
That's not even close to what happened.

The administration left it alone for days saying they'll let private business sort it out. (Default investigation notwithstanding.)

When a bunch of news media started reporting the group was Russian and then insinuate it was a state sponsored attack, DarkSide said something along the lines of, "We didn't realize this would start geopolitical conflict. We will be careful to vet clients more carefully in the future."

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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by whimsicalism on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:31AM (#27722265)
They also accepted a ransom substantially below their typical going rate. The Darkside people were probably shitting their pants, this is not what they intended at all.
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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by astrange on Friday July 02, 2021 @11:07PM (#27719041)
Did they leave it alone for days? The FBI seized the ransom (claiming it was left in a Coinbase account) so clearly someone was doing something.
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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by Wolfenstein98k on Friday July 02, 2021 @11:55PM (#27719235)
"Left alone" as in publicly and geopolitically.

The FBI investigated the crime as they always do. It was treated as a standard international monetary theft.

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Re:US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack by arthurcolle on Monday July 05, 2021 @08:44PM (#27743218)
I mean it's reasonably close - but FWIW thanks for the correction, it's been a wild year
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