Pipeline hacker apologize promise to ransom less controversial targets in future

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.

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.