Reply to post: Re: FAIL $5 million for criminals

Ransomware victim Colonial Pipeline paid $5m to get oil pumping again, restored from backups anyway – report

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Re: FAIL $5 million for criminals

BZZZTT - Cattleprod of fail.

The general pre-requisite to these attacks is a successful domain privilege escalation attack first. Unless both userland and systemland were impacted you're not comparing like with like.

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