REUTERS / Samantha SaisIsrael’s Electricity Authority has been under a “sever cyberattack” since Monday, according to the country’s energy minister.
Yuval Steinitz told The Times of Israel a virus had been identified in the energy department, and software that was already in place was working to neutralize it. Though the suspects behind this attack are still unknown, the attack on critical infrastructure comes just one month after hackers caused the first power blackout ever, in Ukraine.
There was no loss of power in Israel’s case, however. A blog post at the cybersecurity research SANS Institute explained that the virus apparently only affected …read more
Source: Business Insider
