After the U.S. unveiled charges against six members of the Sandworm unit in Russia’s military intelligence agency, Wired re-visited “a secret experiment in 2007 proved that hackers could devastate power grid equipment beyond repair — with a file no bigger than a gif.” It’s an excerpt from the new book SANDWORM: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the…
Tag: industrial control systems
New Ransomware Targets Industrial Control Systems
In recent months, researchers have caught ransomware “intentionally tampering with industrial control systems that dams, electric grids, and gas refineries rely on to keep equipment running safely,” reports Ars Technica. According to researchers at the security firm Drago, the ransomware tries to kill 64 different processes, the names of which are all hard-coded within the malware. Long-time Slashdot reader Garabito shared…
Will Iran Launch a Cyberattack Against the U.S.?
“Iranian officials are likely considering a cyber-attack against the U.S. in the wake of an airstrike that killed one of its top military officials,” reports Bloomberg: In a tweet after the airstrike on Thursday, Christopher Krebs, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, repeated a warning from the summer about Iranian malicious cyber-attacks, and urged the public to brush…
Lessons From the Cyberattack On India’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant
Dan Drollette shares an article by two staffers at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. “Indian officials acknowledged on October 30th that a cyberattack occurred at the country’s Kudankulam nuclear power plant,” they write, adding that “According to last Monday’s Washington Post, Kudankulam is India’s biggest nuclear power plant, ‘equipped…