Tuesday, January 12, 2016

U.S. Helping Ukraine Investigate December Power Grid Hack

 
Reuters, 12/01 19:06 CET

By Dustin Volz and Jim Finkle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday it was helping Ukraine investigate an apparent attack last month on the country’s power grid that caused a blackout for 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.” 

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Source: Euronews

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