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Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid

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Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid

IT WAS 3:30 p.m. last December 23, and residents of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine were preparing to end their workday and head home through the cold winter streets. Inside the Prykarpattyaoblenergo control center, which distributes power to the region’s residents, operators too were nearing the end of their shift. But just as one worker was organizing papers at his desk that day, the cursor on his computer suddenly skittered across the screen of its own accord...
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BlackEnergy malware activity spiked in runup to Ukraine power grid takedown

This first-ever event in western Ukraine was a trial run. Russia now has empirical knowledge of how to cyber-attack power-grid controls virtually anywhere.

Highly significant. The US government has stated that it would consider such an attack on homeland infrastructure an aggressive act of war.
 
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