Pipeline hack 'a warning shot' for electrical grid, other infrastructure
Story Date: 5/13/2021

 

Source: Cullen Browder, WRAL, 5/12/21

A Russian criminal group known as DarkSide is suspected in the ransomware attack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline. The attack has other energy leaders on edge and scrambling to make sure their systems are secure. "It should serve as a warning shot for all the vital infrastructure," said Stephen Arbogast, a longtime executive at Exxon who now is a professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Arbogast said he’s not surprised the pipeline was targeted.

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