Everything You Need To Know About the Pipeline Hack

<p>So another band of hackers struck again: a criminal gang known as ‘DarkSide’ <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzzez/colonial-pipeline-hackers-statement-darkside" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">unleashed a ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline</a>, which shut down an integral line that supplies the East Coast with oil and gas.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>