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US Helping Ukraine Investigate Power Grid Hack


The U.S. government said it was helping Ukraine investigate an apparent cyber attack last month on the country’s power grid that caused a blackout for an estimated 80,000 customers.

Experts have widely described the Dec. 23 incident at western Ukraine’s Prykarpattyaoblenergo utility as the first known power outage caused by a cyber attack. Ukraine’s SBU state security service has blamed Russia for the incident, while U.S. cyber firm iSight Partners linked it to a Russian hacking group known as “Sandworm.”

The Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team, or ICS-CERT, said in an alert emailed on Tuesday that …read more

Source: Voice of America

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