Cyber Security

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Gas delivered via Colonial Pipeline Co.’s system is reaching consumers in all the states it serves following a days-long network shutdown, the company announced Saturday.

A bipartisan group of members of the House Homeland Security Committee introduced legislation that would bolster security for pipelines after the gas shortage caused by this week’s Colonial Pipeline shutdown

A group of pro-Iran Twitter accounts flooded the platform with “massive surges of unmitigated antisemitism” and disinformation, enough to get it trending, as Israel stepped up military strikes against the Tehran-backed Hamas terrorists in Gaza responsible for launching hundreds of rockets at civilian targets this week, according to a nonprofit, politically neutral research institution.

The ransomware group deemed responsible for the dayslong shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline said it would cease operations, cybersecurity experts said Friday.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that gas supply in areas affected by the Colonial Pipeline shutdown would take “a few days” to fully return to normal, and urged consumers to “only buy the gas they need” to speed up the process.

Toshiba Tec France Imaging System said on Friday that DarkSide, the hacking group blamed for crippling a major U.S. pipeline company, had targeted it in a ransomware attack during the night of May 4.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that companies impacted by ransomware attacks should not pay money to hackers following reports Colonial Pipeline made a payment to regain access to some of its systems.

Phil Flynn, senior energy analyst at The PRICE Futures Group, said gas prices are “close to getting to a short-term peak because everybody's bought gasoline and put it in their garage” following the Colonial Pipeline shutdown.