Pipeline attack in US underscores weakness of cyber defence

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"The fact that a bunch of geeks armed with laptops shut down a pipeline that serves 45 per cent of America's oil refineries shows that US critical infrastructure is a lot more vulnerable to cyber extortion than we'd like to think

the attack was carried out by a cybercrime gang calling itself DarkSide, apparently based in eastern Europe and Russia.

"DarkSide ransomware is responsible for the compromise of the Colonial Pipeline network

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