Interesting that you would claim to know all about sub7 but then would claim that ransomware can't shut down a pipeline. I guess that shows you were never anything more than a script kiddie.
ND and Texas are both producing less than they were a year ago. We still have a lot of capacity in the US and with oil prices hitting $70 they are at the point of being profitable to bring back on line.
If they never had a backup of the hard drives it could. I could stop ransomware from starting at boot if I had time to search for it. It uses Windows boot, not BIOS boot.
Yes, I did know about Sub7...in fact mobman gave me it 4 days before general release and I mm'd it to 4400 AOL staff members I had collected from hacking an internal.
I had mm'd it 2 days before general release. My icq was one steady ring to where I couldn't possibly check them all for 2 weeks.
The way I got rid of the present-day ransomware was nuking the drive and copying a functional Windows image.
It was faster than spending 1-2 hrs hunting down how the thing (No it's not "The Thing") starts and stopping it from starting and deleting the files.
I say it was all a cover story, because it's weak AF.
I say Biden shutting off drilling caused a fuel crisis, and they ran cover with that weak-ass story.
More to come..believe that. They won't be able to hide it next time.
Any geek worth his salt can stop ransomware from starting with Windows.
There's only so many places to put the startup .inis and files.
This is about 1/3 of the things you can do:
https://blog.emsisoft.com/en/31002/basics-manual-malware-identification-removal/
I'm a lil more advanced..take regular backups of your stuff.
If a fuel company that supplies the eastern seaboard doesn't take weekly backups of their software to do so, and leaves themselves open to cyber attacks...
That's folly.
There's a lot of businesses and infrastructure like that in America. China hacked Miami traffic grid before.
They need to get more secure and take more backups.
The best Chinese hackers couldn't get around a dedicated old-ass linux hardware firewall. Nope.