Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount defended his actions during the opening hours of the May 7 DarkSide ransomware attack against his company. Blount also revealed that Colonial Pipeline’s IT team was unaware of the existence of the VPN that the DarkSide attackers appear to have exploited, as the application did not appear on any of its scans. The Justice Department announced it had recovered about half of the ransom payment by following the bitcoin payment’s path (see: $2.3 million of Colonial Pipeline Ransom Payment Recovered)”]