Reuters, 12/02 14:18 CET
By Pavel Polityuk
KIEV (Reuters) – Hackers used a
Russian-based internet provider and made phone calls from inside Russia
as part of a coordinated cyber attack on Ukraine’s power grid in
December, Ukraine’s energy ministry said on Friday.
The incident was widely seen as the first known power
outage caused by a cyber attack, and has prompted fears both within
Ukraine and outside that other critical infrastructure could be
vulnerable.
The ministry, saying it had completed an investigation
into the incident, did not accuse the Russian government directly of
involvement in the attack, which knocked out electricity supplies to
tens of thousands of customers in central and western Ukraine and
prompted Kiev to review its cyber defences.
But the findings chime with the testimony of the U.S.
intelligence chief to Congress this week, which named cyber attacks,
including those targeting Washington’s interests in Ukraine, as the
biggest threat to U.S. national security.
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