Cybersecurity Shorts: Colonial Pipeline Attack, DarkSide’s Ransomware-as-a-Service and More

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts series, my colleague Fred McClimans and I cover major happenings in the world of cybersecurity over the course of the past week. Our discussion centered on: The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack and the targeting by threat actor DarkSide of the IT system housing Colonial’s corporate and business data. This is a prime example of how targeting the weakest link can take down the whole system. DarkSide’s Ransomware-as-a-Service offering and why that’s so attractive for the hacker community. The surprise shut down of DarkSide’s servers, which caused the group to lose access to its blog, payment processing capability, and denial of service (DoS) operations. The Biden Administration signing of a new executive order aimed at strengthening the Federal government’s cybersecurity defenses. The FBI’s court-ordered effort to disrupt exploitation from Microsoft Exchange Servers.