Earlier this year, several employees at a nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine connected part of the internal network to the Internet in order to mine cryptocurrency, authorities said. The …
A Secure Network Is Not Enough, Cyber Wargames Show
A series of cyber war games organized by the US Defense department has revealed unexpected ways in which threat actors could sabotage military operations, even if military networks are well protected. …
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Nation-State APTs Target US Utilities With Dangerous Malware
Researchers with Proofpoint have uncovered various spearphishing campaigns that aim to infect US utility companies with a new kind of remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed LookBack. The spear phishing …
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Industrial control system cyber security risk high, report warns
A new study by Dragos warns that cyber attacks targeting industrial control systems (ICS) are on the rise, with threat actors focusing on the oil and gas industry in particular. ICS environments …
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Johannesburg Ransomware Attack Leaves Residents in the Dark
A Thursday incident in Johannesburg, South Africa that left some residents without power serves as a grave reminder of the destructive potential of ransomware. City Power, a local pay-as-you-go power …
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Cybersecurity should not be an afterthought within industrial environments
Applied Risk warns that even though cyber risk awareness has increased, cybersecurity is still often an afterthought in industrial environments where new technologies are regularly deployed without …
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US wants to isolate power grids with ‘retro’ technology to limit cyber-attacks
The United States is close to starting a two-year pilot program aimed at bolstering the security of the power grid by making use of analog technologies. The program is part of the Securing Energy …
Triton Attackers Seen Scanning US Power Grid Networks
New research by Dragos indicates that the threat actors behind the 2017 Triton (aka Trisis) malware attack that shut down a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia, started to scan power grids in the US …
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US Planted Powerful Malware in Russia’s Power Grid: Report
US intelligence officials have been investigating the Russian power grid since at least 2012 and recently began targeting power grid control systems in offensive operations, according to a recent New …
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Only six TSA staffers are overseeing US oil&gas pipeline security
A recent security audit[pdf] of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has exposed serious shortcomings in the TSA's efforts to protect the …
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