<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/us/politics/dark-side-hack.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/us/politics/dark-side-hac...</a><p><i>Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, said Monday afternoon that the government believed DarkSide was “a criminal actor” but was looking for any ties the group might have to nation-states.</i><p>My theory is that any competent nation-state actor is going to foster many criminal actors that they either directly or indirectly control, to use as both conduits and cover for their own operations.
It still boggles my mind that (at least from what I've read), there was direct remote connectivity into Colonial's infra...Not that this excuses DarkSide at all, I'm sure they must be terrified at the ramifications of what they've caused.