by Ace
These hackers are possibly under the direct control of Putin, and, at the very least, are tolerated by Putin only so long as they attack targets Putin approves of.
This was essentially a Russian state-sponsored hacking/ransom attack.
Russian criminals, acting under orders of the Russian government or with that tacit permission of the Russian government — and probably trained by Russia, too! — shut down a major artery of fuel and demanded a five million dollar ransom.
Biden refused to say earlier if they should or should not pay the ransom, describing this Russian state sponsored or tolerated attack as a “private matter” between Colonial Pipeline and the state-empowered hackers of Russia.
Colonial Pipeline paid the ransom in Bitcoin.
And Biden now refuses to comment on whether he told Colonial Pipeline to just pay Putin’s pawns, which means, of course, he did just that.
Two nodes which really pushed the DNC message that “Trump is a pawn of Putin for not escalating into near-military conflict over ‘election interference’ by Russian-tolerated Internet trolls” are currently silent on the candidate they voted for, Joe Biden, calling a Russian attack on a US company in a critical infrastructure role a “private matter” and then refusing to comment on whether he advised the US party in this “private matter” to pay ransom to the Russian party.
Those nodes are, of course, the Democrat dark-money-funded sites, The Bulwark and The Dispatch. Suddenly it’s not just acceptable but Wise and Patriotic to roll over for Russia!
The National Review, which was also happy to push this DNC/Clinton Campaign meme, is also strangely silent on Joe Biden’s apparent “admiration for Putin’s authoritarian tendencies” and cowing in the face of Russian aggression.
Also silent: Noted True Conservative and Russia Conspiracist AllahPundit.
You know what they say:
Leftists believe none of the things they claim to passionately believe in.
It’s almost as if these vanguards of True Conservative Thought-Leadership participated in a DNC propaganda operation that they knew was a lie from the outset.
The vast majority of American voters, even Biden voters, admit their was rampant fraud, and more and more they agree it was enough to give Biden a false defeat when he clearly lost.
The Big Lie is failing, just as this imposture is failing right before our eyes.
Trump would have had this mitigated in a couple of days. Idiot Biden just stands and stares at a problem waiting for it to go away while Trump attacked them. Like Obama allowing the Deepwater Horizon spill to spread unabated because he didn’t want to offend unions by allowing foreign nations with specialized ships to help contain the slick, idiot Biden is more afraid of offending some interest group than worried about the American people.
Idiot Biden doesn’t want to jeopardize any of his foreign investments, so he does not retaliate.
“Trump would have had this mitigated in a couple of days.”
He’d have used his magical mitigation wand? Trump had four years to prioritize dealing with the growing threat of ransomware attacks. It wasn’t like he didn’t know. The biggest ransomware attack in history, the WannaCry attack, occurred during 2017, the first year of the Trump administration. It hit 150 countries, the US included, costing them hundreds of millions to BILLIONS of dollars, never recovered. The attack is thought to have originated in North Korea.
“The biggest ransomware attack in history, the WannaCry attack, occurred during 2017, the first year of the Trump administration. It hit 150 countries, the US included, costing them hundreds of millions to BILLIONS of dollars, never recovered. The attack is thought to have originated in North Korea.”
From Wikipedia:
” It propagated through EternalBlue, an exploit developed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for older Windows systems. EternalBlue was stolen and leaked by a group called The Shadow Brokers at least a year prior to the attack.”
So a system developed by NSA was stolen under the Obama administration. Don’t remember you ever blaming Obama for that theft.
And of course, you blame Trump for it but then, apply no blame to the Biden administration for not doing anything about the recent ransomware attack that actually threatens national security.
But then, you are an assh0le, Comrade Greggie.
Liberals, knowing how liberals always fail, hold liberals to a much lower standard.
You missed the part about Trump having four years to deal with the proven threat of ransomware attacks, but doing nothing. What a surprise.
“You missed the part about Trump having four years to deal with the proven threat of ransomware attacks, but doing nothing. What a surprise.”
And Beijing Biden has done what again?
He will. It won’t take him four years. You’ll predictably find fault, whatever he does.
He’d have taken action, not laughed about it. Not victim shamed those stranded, as idiot Biden’s idiot energy secretary did.
First, under Trump, we would be back to full employment. We wouldn’t be paying people to stay unemployed. We’d have enough truck drivers to supply the east.
Second, he would have mobilized the assets (trucking and rail) to mitigate the problem until there was a resolution.
Trump created the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to combat cyber security threats. Why didn’t idiot Biden do something to stop this attack? Remember, like with Trump being blamed for the PPE Obama never replaced, idiot Biden is now fully and completely responsible for EVERYTHING. Idiot Biden gets held to the same standard as you crybabies held Trump. How’s it going?
Utter, complete, massive failure of leadership and action by this conglomeration of idiots that worry more about pronouns than the American people.
Joe Biden logic.
Colonial pipeline good.
Keystone pipeline bad.
Biden can never fill Trumps shoes since Biden has his foot in his mouth all ready
June 7, 2021 – Justice Department recovers majority of Colonial Pipeline ransom: ‘We turned the tables on DarkSide’
https://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-recovers-majority-of-colonial-pipeline-ransom-we-turned-the-tables-on-dark-side-210611828.html
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“The sophisticated use of technology to hold businesses and even whole cities hostage for profit is decidedly a 21st century challenge, but the old adage ‘follow the money’ still applies,” said Lisa Monaco, President Biden’s deputy attorney general, during a press conference on Monday afternoon.
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That old adage might be hanging on the wall in the office of the Manhattan District Attorney.