Colonial Pipeline pays $5 mn in bitcoin to hackers: New age warfare by non-state actors

#CutTheClutter #ColonialPipeline #CyberAttack
As the hacking group DarkSide forces US' Colonial Pipeline to pay $5 million to recover its stolen data and to resume the supply of gas on the Atlantic Coast, Shekhar Gupta explains how this reflects a new manifestation of cyber warfare and how do these groups function, in episode 747 of #CutTheClutter.

Additional research by Saamiya Laroia and Tenzin Zompa

Correction: Representational image used at 8:52 is of London Metropolitan Police, not DC Metropolitan Police. Error regretted.
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Read Pia Krishnankutty's explainer on how cyberattack on major US pipeline has become a diplomatic issue between US and Russia here: https://theprint.in/theprint-essential/how-cyberattack-on-major-us-pipeline-has-become-a-diplomatic-issue-between-us-and-russia/656384/
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Read about other ransomware attacks in the United States here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/us/dc-police-hack.html?searchResultPosition=1
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Watch CutTheClutter episode 694 on Chinese cyber-attacks and Mumbai blackout here: https://youtu.be/5_S7JxHwDdg
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