Enlarge (credit: Yuri Smityuk | Getty Images) For all the nation-state hacker groups that have targeted the United States power grid—and even successfully breached American electric utilities—only the Russian military intelligence group known as Sandworm has been brazen enough to trigger actual blackouts, shutting the lights off in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016.

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  • Russian Sandworm hackers targeted 20 critical orgs in Ukraine
    Also known as BlackEnergy, Seashell Blizzard, Voodoo Bear, and APT44, the hackers are believed to be associated with Russia's Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (the GRU ...
    04/21/2024 - 9:31 pm | View Link
  • Tiny Texas city repels Russia-tied hackers eyeing water system
    The attacks in Texas are the latest example of hackers - some of them tied to US adversaries - targeting ... This is now Iran, China and Russia,” said John Hultquist, chief analyst at Mandiant ...
    04/19/2024 - 3:24 am | View Link
  • Tiny Texas City Repels Russia-Tied Hackers Eyeing Water System
    Cypert, the city manager, said he found thousands of attempts to breach Hale Center’s firewall, some coming from an internet address that traced back to St. Petersburg, Russia.
    04/19/2024 - 12:35 am | View Link
  • US Water Supply Targeted by Russian Hackers: Report
    Sandworm has long been identified as Unit 74455 of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency and has been tied to attacks on ... Poland and the U.S. have been targeted by the Cyber Army of Russia ...
    04/17/2024 - 10:59 pm | View Link
  • How Ukraine’s cyber police fights back against Russia’s hackers
    On February 24, 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine. Since then, life in the country has changed for everyone. For the Ukrainian forces who had to defend their country, for the regular citizens ...
    04/12/2024 - 3:52 am | View Link
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