The State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information that could lead to the identification or location of those in leadership positions within the DarkSide ransomware group.
earlier this year, which resulted a multi-day shutdown of a conduit that carries approximately 45% of the fuel used on the East Coast.U.S. State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2019.
"In offering this reward, the United States demonstrates its commitment to protecting ransomware victims around the world from exploitation by cyber criminals," Ned Price, a State Department spokesperson, said in a statement Thursday.MORE: Colonial Pipeline CEO faces grilling about ransomware attack The Colonial Pipeline incident was seen as a display of how much power cyber criminals have seized in recent years, as they took aim at critical infrastructure. The company's CEO admitted shortly after the incident that he had authorized a payment of some $4.3 million to DarkSide only hours after learning of the attacks, due to the uncertainty surrounding how long it would take to get the critical pipeline back online.approximately $2.3 million in Bitcoin from the alleged cyber criminals.
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