Slate Magazine |
The NSA's Inadvertent Role in the Major Cyberattack on Ukraine
Slate Magazine Besides, the NSA doesn't do very many hacks of the sort that the Shadow Brokers stole—hacks that involve “zero–day exploits,” the discovery and use of vulnerabilities (in software, hardware, servers, networks, and so forth) that no one has previously … |
This weekend houses and businesses in parts in the northern part of Kiev were plunged into darkness after the electricity supply was unexpectedly cut off.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Hacked |
Ukraine Power Grid Hack, All May Not be What it Seems
Hacked Furthermore, malware is software open to being reverse engineered and repurposed, akin to firing a missile into enemy territory with the blueprints to its construction attached. We have seen this in the past with Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame. Prophetically … |
A new study of a cyberattack last month against Ukrainian power companies suggests malware didn’t directly cause the outages that affected at least 80,000 customers.
Instead, the malware provided a foothold for key access to networks that allowed the hackers to then open circuit breakers that cut power, according to information published Saturday by the SANS Industrial Control Systems (ICS) team.
Experts have warned for years that industrial control systems used by utilities are vulnerable to cyberattacks. The Dec. 23 attacks in Ukraine are the most prominent example yet of those fears coming to fruition.
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