*This can't be good. Obviously it's even worse, physically, to just bluntly rip down the power transmission lines, which they're also keen on doing in the Ukraine and Crimea, but this is the kind of operation-other-than-war that could get out of hand in a hurry.
*Like, what happens if you get drunk or careless and accidentally black-out your own town? And then you're like, "whoops, better fix that pronto" and your own cyberwar computer is just sitting there as inert as a bookend.
via SANS
TOP OF THE NEWS
–Ukrainian Power Plants Targeted in Another Round of Attacks
(January 20 & 21, 2016)
Ukrainian power plants are coming under attack again, this time from
malware that is based on a freely-available open-source backdoor -
something no one would expect from an alleged state-sponsored malware
operator," according to ESET. The malware attempted to gain initial
purchase in the systems through a malicious XLS file in spearphishing
email messages.
http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/01/20/new-wave-attacks-ukrainian-power-industry/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/21/ukraine_energy_utilities_attacked_again_with_open_source_trojan_backdoor/
http://www.scmagazine.com/new-wave-of-attacks-on-ukrainian-power-plants/article/466473/
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/266603-security-researcher-ukraine-power-grid-facing-new-wave-of-cyberattacks
–Ukraine Power Plant Attack
(January 20, 2016)
Kim Zetter's comprehensive article presents "everything we know about
Ukraine's power plant hack" and answers questions the incident raises.
The article also addresses what is still not known about the attack.
https://slim-weight.info/2016/01/everything-we-know-about-ukraines-power-plant-hack/%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="GridItem-beYvyV hdKCPW grid--item grid-layout__aside">
