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A dark gray screenshot titled "About the latest news." is dated "10.05.2021." The body text reads: "We are apolitical, we do not participate in geopolitics, do not need to tie us with a defined goverment and look for other our motives. Our goal is to make money, and not creating problems for society. From today we introduce moderation and check each company that our partners want to encrypt to avoid social consequences in the future." The wording matches DarkSide's May 2021 ransomware post after the Colonial Pipeline incident, turning criminal extortion into grim trust-and-safety theater.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick When your ransomware affiliate program needs moderation, you have reinvented enterprise governance with worse incident response.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

When your ransomware affiliate program needs moderation, you have reinvented enterprise governance with worse incident response.
@Agent1378 5y

Is this from hackers who broke that US fuel pipeline?
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  Yes!
@Agent1378 5y

Interestingy that they seem to actually provide this encrypting/ransom thing as a service for any "parner"
1. dev_meme 5y
  
  Yeah, hacker tools sold as SaaS for long time already
@waifu_anton 5y

Can someone explain this?
1. @kitbot256 5y
  
  1. A hacker group encrypts systems managing Colonial Pipelines, basically affecting 45% of oil supply of the Eastern States (New York, Virginia, Florida, you name it) 2. Immediately some people start accusing Russia of the attack 3. The attacking group issues the OP (with strong accent, possibly Russian), denying all accusations of being a state-funded entity.
  
  @waifu_anton 5y
  
  Thanks
  
  @Agent1378 5y
  
  Please give link. Thank u
  
  @kitbot256 5y
  
  Link to 1: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-we-know-about-the-colonial-pipeline-shutdown/ar-BB1gzWpP 2: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russian-criminal-group-may-be-responsible-colonial-pipeline-ransomware-attack-n1266793 3: OP, see the root of this thread :)
  
  @Agent1378 5y
  
  Oh. So, you can actually figure out accents by reading texts?
  
  @YaroST12 5y
  
  This. I know both Russian and English and that tweet doesn't look like its from someone who's main language is Russian.
  
  @Agent1378 5y
  
  Yes it is. London is a capital of Great Britain.
  
  @p4vook 5y
  
  Je ne mange pas six jours
  
  @Agent1378 5y
  
  We haven't eaten for 7 days! https://youtu.be/stlZEKoJg10
  
  @pixelsex 5y
  
  It does, actually. The "a/the" articles usually are a dead giveaway, but they did a good job on them. What caught my eye was: - "do not need to tie us with..." - " не нужно причислять нас к" - this one's obvious, should just be "do not tie us with" or "no need to tie us witch" - "to create money ... not creating problems" - mixing up the tenses a bit. should be either "making money.. not creating" or "to make .. not to create" - "from today" - "с сегодняшнего дня" - also pretty obvious, should be "from now on" or "starting from today" - "we introduce ... and check" - check should be a subj, not a verb in this case Rate and subscribe to my linguistical analysis
  
  @YaroST12 5y
  
  Very good Ted talk
  
  @kitbot256 5y
  
  you can add crazy abundance of commas and usage of the word "geopolitics" - every time I see it lately it has Russian origins.
  
  @pixelsex 5y
  
  commas are essential and dissing oxford commas was a mistake! very true though, russian is hard to read without them
  
  @kitbot256 5y
  
  hah. There are some very common mistakes that tend to be present in the English text written by people conversing in some specific language. For instance a native English-speaker tends to swap you're and your, as they sound pretty similar and he basically speaks in his mind and writes what it sounds. A non-native never ever mistypes "your" for "you're". And from my personal experience this text above cries "RUSSIAN".
  
  @YaroST12 5y
  
  A non-native never ever mistypes "your" for "you're". Brrrrruuuuuuhhhh
  
  @Agent1378 5y
  
  Thank you for ze explanation, comrades😃😎
  
  @kitbot256 5y
  
  I may be wrong here. Again, personal experiences. I think as a Russian (or Dutch, or Chinese) person thinks in their native language and translates to English, it makes no sense to say e.g. "your absolutely right here" An American person however thinks in English and writes to the inner mind's dictation, and its "it's" sounds pretty much like "its", and "your" is indistinguishable from "you're".
  
  @RiedleroD 5y
  
  there's some slightly different pronounciation in how I pronounce it, but I'm not a native speaker.
  
  @cfyzium 5y
  
  Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit. (c) Internet.
  
  @kitbot256 5y
  
  Golden
  
  @anatoli26 5y
  
  😂 so u can distinguish native-russian writing in English vs native-ucrainian? And then tell if the ucrainian is working for MI-6 writing with “strong possibly russian accent” lol so much british dogshit
  
  @kitbot256 5y
  
  Exactly! Look at the italic now: 3. The attacking group issues the OP (with strong accent, possibly Russian),
  
  dev_meme 5y
  
  This is not just about state funded What I like most: they will run due diligence on companies their clients plan to attack! To prevent! Social! Consequences!
dev_meme 5y

And even !Biden! confirmed that DarkSide isn’t gov funded group! That’s completely crazy stuff!
@YaroST12 5y

Russian is my first
@YaroST12 5y

Idk it looks like nothing I've seen before from Russians

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