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This story was co-published with MIT Technology Review. On Jan. 11, antivirus company Bitdefender said it was “happy to announce” a startling breakthrough. It had found a flaw in the ransomware that a gang known as DarkSide was using to freeze computer networks of dozens of businesses in the U.S. and Europe. Companies facing demands from DarkSide could download a free tool from Bitdefender and avoid paying millions of dollars in ransom to the hackers. But Bitdefender wasn’t the first to identify this flaw. Two other researchers, Fabian Wosar and Michael Gillespie, had noticed it the month before and had begun discreetly looking for victims to help. By publicizing its tool, Bitdefender alerted DarkSide to the lapse, which involved reusing the same digital keys to lock and unlock multiple victims. The next day, DarkSide declared that it had repaired the problem, and that “new companies have nothing to hope for.” ....
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Ransomware attacks are so frequent that they seem like old news. There is a new interest in ransomware attacks following the attack against Colonial Pipeline [view related posts]. The Colonial Pipeline attack crippled the gas transporter for five days and could affect gas availability and prices for at least the next two weeks. The FBI has blamed the incident on DarkSide. Although DarkSide publicly states that it is only interested in money and not in disruption, it certainly has contradicted its public statements. The FBI, in a private advisory, said that it has been following DarkSide since October 2020. According to reports about the advisory, the FBI stated “Darkside has impacted numerous organizations across various sectors, including manufacturing, legal, insurance, health care, and energy.” In addition, it is reported that DarkSide leases its hacking tools as ransomware as a service, splitting proceeds ....
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