Cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline, America too vulnerable?
What the hacker attack against Colonial Pipeline hides. Italics by Giuseppe Gagliano
On May 7, the Colonial Pipeline underwent a cyber offensive that US intelligence attributed to a Russian cybercriminal organization known as DarkSide.
WHAT HAPPENED AT COLONIAL PIPELINE
This cyber offensive was so effective that it allowed this organization to steal about 100 GB of confidential data and forced the Colonial Pipeline to shut down the pipeline system that runs for 8,850 km and allows the provision of all the 'American East Coast with a volume of 2.5 million barrels per day of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum derivatives.
US-RUSSIA TENSIONS
The reaction from the Russian embassy in Washington, which on 11 May decisively and indignantly rejected the accusations made by the United States is obvious and predictable.
THE RUSSIAN INHERENCE
Regardless of the foreseeable reactions from the Russian embassy, there are some objective facts that certainly cannot be denied and among them the Russian interference through both the cyber offensive in the US elections in November 2020 and the one against the American company SolarWinds Corps. .
THE RUSSIAN SIGHTS
Assuming by hypothesis that these cyber attacks were carried out by Russia, there is no doubt that the latter has so far demonstrated an indisputable efficiency and danger from the point of view of cyberwar, a danger that before these attacks had certainly been underestimated. or at least underestimated by American intelligence analysts.
VULNERABLE AMERICA?
Secondly, despite the huge government funding to the main American cyber espionage agencies and, among them, the famous NSA, for the umpteenth time the United States has shown a dangerous vulnerability that is completely unacceptable and inadmissible for a nation that aims to have a global hegemony on a technological level.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/energia/attacco-cyber-a-colonial-pipeline-america-troppo-vulnerabile/ on Wed, 12 May 2021 08:11:12 +0000.