Reply to post: Re: Power cuts caused by destruction of two pylons

BlackEnergy malware activity spiked in runup to Ukraine power grid takedown

Solmyr ibn Wali Barad

Re: Power cuts caused by destruction of two pylons

That's a different topic. Lines to Crimea were blown up by old-fashioned explosives. No IT/DevOops angle to be found there. Whereas this incident has all the right stuff - cyber mumble and lots of blameshifting.

"The 23 December outage at Ukraine's Prykarpattya Oblenergo and Kyivoblenergo utilities cut power to 80,000 customers for six hours and has been blamed on Moscow by the nation's security service."

"After analysing the information that has been made available by affected power companies, researchers, and the media it is clear that cyber attacks were directly responsible for power outages in Ukraine,"

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