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More ransomware websites disappear in aftermath of Colonial Pipeline hack

By Raphael Satter

May 17 2021 12:20PM

In another potential aftershock.

More ransomware websites disappear in aftermath of Colonial Pipeline hack

Two more ransomware operators appear to have disappeared from the web, a cyber security researcher said, in another potential aftershock following this month's hack of US fuel transport company Colonial Pipeline. The sites, run by groups dubbed "AKO" and "Everest", ...

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