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TigerVols · Jul 24, 2018

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Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say

Hackers working for Russia claimed “hundreds of victims” last year in a giant and long-running campaign that put them inside the control rooms of U.S. electric utilities where they could have caused blackouts, federal officials said. They said the campaign likely is continuing.

The Russian hackers, who worked for a shadowy state-sponsored group previously identified as Dragonfly or Energetic Bear, broke into supposedly secure, “air-gapped” or isolated networks owned by utilities with relative ease by first penetrating the networks of key vendors who had trusted relationships with the power companies, said officials at the Department of Homeland Security.

“They got to the point where they could have thrown switches” and disrupted power flows, said Jonathan Homer, chief of industrial-control-system analysis for DHS.

DHS has been warning utility executives with security clearances about the Russian group’s threat to critical infrastructure since 2014. But the briefing on Monday was the first time that DHS has given out information in an unclassified setting with as much detail. It continues to withhold the names of victims but now says there were hundreds of victims, not a few dozen as had been said previously.

Experts have been warning about the Russian threat for some time.

“They’ve been intruding into our networks and are positioning themselves for a limited or widespread attack,” said Michael Carpenter, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, who now is a senior director at the Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania. “They are waging a covert war on the West.”
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Remind me again which political party is refusing to fund electronic defensive measures? Which Administration has no cyber security chief?

Slacker · Jul 24, 2018

"It needs to be accepted as fact by everybody in our government because we need to respond to that reality and it's a significant threat. We cannot let that happen again," Fitzpatrick said.

garrow · Jul 24, 2018

Wife of government official with life tenure engages in promulgating Russian propaganda.

Neutral Corner · Jul 24, 2018

More on utility hacking.

Neutral Corner · Jul 24, 2018

GilGarrido · Jul 24, 2018

Slacker said: ↑

Russian Hackers Reach U.S. Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say

Hackers working for Russia claimed “hundreds of victims” last year in a giant and long-running campaign that put them inside the control rooms of U.S. electric utilities where they could have caused blackouts, federal officials said. They said the campaign likely is continuing.

The Russian hackers, who worked for a shadowy state-sponsored group previously identified as Dragonfly or Energetic Bear, broke into supposedly secure, “air-gapped” or isolated networks owned by utilities with relative ease by first penetrating the networks of key vendors who had trusted relationships with the power companies, said officials at the Department of Homeland Security.

“They got to the point where they could have thrown switches” and disrupted power flows, said Jonathan Homer, chief of industrial-control-system analysis for DHS.

DHS has been warning utility executives with security clearances about the Russian group’s threat to critical infrastructure since 2014. But the briefing on Monday was the first time that DHS has given out information in an unclassified setting with as much detail. It continues to withhold the names of victims but now says there were hundreds of victims, not a few dozen as had been said previously.

Experts have been warning about the Russian threat for some time.

“They’ve been intruding into our networks and are positioning themselves for a limited or widespread attack,” said Michael Carpenter, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, who now is a senior director at the Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania. “They are waging a covert war on the West.”
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Apologies if this is a d_b, but I don't remember seeing any mention here of the several-day shutdown of Atlanta city government systems in a ransomware attack last March. I believe reporting at the time suggested that the authorities knew which hackers were responsible. It certainly seems like the sort of thing that Russian-linked hackers would be able to do if they wanted. Do any of our Atlanta-area posters (TyWebb? Steak?) know more?

cyclingwriter2 · Jul 24, 2018

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Apologies if this is a d_b, but I don't remember seeing any mention here of the several-day shutdown of Atlanta city government systems in a ransomware attack last March. I believe reporting at the time suggested that the authorities knew which hackers were responsible. It certainly seems like the sort of thing that Russian-linked hackers would be able to do if they wanted. Do any of our Atlanta-area posters (TyWebb? Steak?) know more?
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It was considered to have been done by disgruntled braves fans.

Neutral Corner · Jul 24, 2018

Analysis | Nikki Haley warns against ‘owning the libs.’ That’s basically Trump’s entire political strategy.

garrow · Jul 24, 2018

Neutral Corner · Jul 24, 2018

The Brits are not screwing around. Putin may have poisoned a couple of people too many there.

Neutral Corner · Jul 24, 2018

>grin<

YankeeFan · Jul 24, 2018

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The Brits are not screwing around. Putin may have poisoned a couple of people too many there.

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Developers in NYC, Miami and LA must be thrilled.

Should mean millions in profits for Trump.

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