As many as 80,000 residents in western Ukraine lost power for six hours on Dec. 23. Cybersecurity firms SANS ICS and iSight Partners have attributed the blackout to Russian hacking group Sandworm and its malicious software, BlackEnergy 3.
Cyberattacks on power grids and other critical infrastructure are not new, but this most recent attack seems to be the first use of cyber as a weapon with kinetic effects during an ongoing conflict, highlighting the growing importance of cybersecurity.
While an analysis of the cyberattack is ongoing, BlackEnergy has a history of targeting information control systems.
For the Prikarpattiaoblenergo electric company in Ukraine, the …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
