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CYBER

Everything You Need To Know About the Pipeline Hack

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

So another band of hackers struck again: a criminal gang known as ‘DarkSide’ unleashed a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which shut down an integral line that supplies the East Coast with oil and gas. While the cyberattack itself didn’t physically knock out the pipeline with a string of code, the resulting attack majorly disrupted a critical piece of US infrastructure: Fuel. While the Biden administration is scrambling to deal with the fallout, questions surrounding DarkSide and its motivations persist. To chat more on that, Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Francheschi-Bicchierai is on the show.  

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.2

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.1

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle one.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:24.5

So another band of hackers struck again.

0:27.2

A criminal gang known as Darkside unleashed a ransomware attack on the colonial pipeline,

0:32.5

which shut down an integral line that supplies the East Coast with oil and gas.

0:37.0

A major energy provider is trying to completely restore its East Coast operations after a cyber

0:42.7

attack derailed its fuel supply chain on Friday.

0:45.9

While the cyber attack itself didn't physically knock out the pipeline with a string of code,

0:51.1

the resulting attack majorly disrupted a critical piece of U.S. infrastructure,

0:55.5

the fuel supply.

0:57.4

While the Biden administration is scrambling to deal with the fallout, questions surrounding

1:01.6

Darkside and its motivations persist.

1:04.5

To chat more on that, Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi Picayi is on the show.

1:09.6

I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber.

1:19.0

So I feel like every week we get on here and chit-chat, Lozo,

1:24.2

more and more of these critical infrastructure attacks are becoming sort of the conversation

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