DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized
It was a mistake to attack the business side of the oil company, because it created what could be sold as reasonable doubt to shut down the pipeline.<p>As a result, the ransom had the optics of an attack on infrastructure. As evidenced by the coverage of Americans desperately filling up containers.<p>This created the impetus for the US to treat this as an incident far and above the ambient ransomware activities leading up to this.<p>It also gave the US an opportunity to show how effective it could be when it had the political cover to do so.