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		enkid on May 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S.'s Biggest Gasoline Pipeline Halted After Cybe... Absolutely, it's better to have a ransomware attack against the workstations instead of a more developed attack that blew the pipeline up.

runeks on May 9, 2021 [–]

This is interesting. Ransomware authors may be protecting their targets against destructive attacks since this would reduce their profits. In the same way that botnets attempt to protect their host from being infected by competing malware.

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