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US uncovers “Swiss Army knife” for hacking industrial control systems

cravetiger | Getty Images reader comments 10 with 9 posters participating Share this story Malware designed to target industrial control systems like power grids, factories, water utilities, and oil refineries represents a rare species of digital badness. So when the United States government warns of a piece of code built to target not just one… Read More »

Hackers tied to Russia’s GRU targeted the US grid for years

reader comments 20 with 17 posters participating Share this story 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… Read More »