Ukraine sees Russian hand in cyber attacks on power grid
Source: Reuters
Hackers used a Russian-based internet provider and made phone calls from inside Russia as part of a coordinated cyber attack on Ukraine's power grid in December, Ukraine's energy ministry said on Friday.
The incident was widely seen as the first known power outage caused by a cyber attack, and has prompted fears both within Ukraine and outside that other critical infrastructure could be vulnerable.
The ministry, saying it had completed an investigation into the incident, did not accuse the Russian government directly of involvement in the attack, which knocked out electricity supplies to tens of thousands of customers in central and western Ukraine and prompted Kiev to review its cyber defenses.
But the findings chime with the testimony of the U.S. intelligence chief to Congress this week, which named cyber attacks, including those targeting Washington's interests in Ukraine, as the biggest threat to U.S. national security.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-cybersecurity-idUSKCN0VL18E
Ukrainians remember Holodomor, the
genocide by famine by Soviet Russia in the 1930s, so the sabotage of their power grid during the winter is no big surprise.
U.S. official blames Russia for power grid attack in Ukraine
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