After pressure from President Joe Biden on Russian authorities and an apparent law enforcement ... [+] seizure of their servers, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware crew decides to call it quits. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty ImagesDarkSide, the hacker group whose malware was responsible for shutting down the Colonial Pipeline and disrupting gasoline supplies throughout the southeastern U.S., says it will stop distributing the hacking tools its collaborators use to attack infrastructure. The group said it had also lost its access to ransom payments from hacking victims, as authorities had seized its cryptocurrency accounts. On Thursday, President Joe Biden said the Colonial Pipeline hackers appeared to be based in Russia, but were not employed by the Russian government. Babuk, another ransomware group, claimed to have leaked 250GB of data from Washington D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday, including personal information on informers and officers.

Source: Forbes May 14, 2021 16:10 UTC