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| Hackers cause electricity 'blackout' in Ukraine | |
| 2016-01-06 | |
The power outage in the country, first reported by local news sources on December 23, took a regional control center offline and has been blamed on malware. It's believed the BlackEnergy Trojan -- which started out as a tool to create denial of service (DDoS) attacks in 2007 and has since been developed into sophisticated malware -- was used to cause the blackout. More at the link. And other links on the same story: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/malware-found-inside-downed-ukrainian-power-plant-points-to-cyberattack https://ics.sans.org/blog/2016/01/01/potential-sample-of-malware-from-the-ukrainian-cyber-attack-uncovered http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-01/05/cyberattack-power-electricity-ukraine http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/first-known-hacker-caused-power-outage-signals-troubling-escalation/ http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2440469/ukraine-investigating-suspected-russian-cyber-attack-on-power-grid | |
| Posted by:Ebbang Uluque6305 |
| #2 Judging from the logs on my web site, I'd say there are just as many hackers in Ukraine as there are in Russia. IMHO they deserve each other. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-01-06 12:28 |
| #1 Russia flexing it's muscles? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-01-06 10:58 |