Ukraine’s electrical grid was fortunate in surviving a Russian cyber-attack.
The Ukrainian government has announced that a major cyber-attack on the country’s power grid was narrowly avoided.
Hackers attempted to shut down substations at one of the country’s main energy companies. Resulting in blackouts for two million people.
The computer virus employed in the attack is identical to that utilized by Russian hackers. It is earlier attacks on Kyiv that resulted in power outages.
Sandworm, a Russian military outfit, is thought to be involved, according to researchers.
It is the most serious cyber-attack against Ukraine since Russia invaded the country.
Viktor Zhora, deputy chairman of the State Service of Special Communications, claimed his team was notified. A probable attack on electrical networks at the start of the invasion. During a press conference on Tuesday.
Despite a massive effort to safeguard the internet of energy groups in the country. Hackers were able to breach an unnamed private company that supplies power to two million people, he added.
“The hackers planned the outages for the 8th of April. striking on Friday evening, just before the weekend,” Mr. Zhora said.
“It appears that we were really fortunate to be able to respond to this on time.”
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Mr. Zhora noted Eset and Microsoft researchers for their assistance in identifying. Blocking the harmful software used in the attack.
Eset claimed it worked together with Ukraine’s cyber authority “to fix. And to secure this important infrastructure network” in a statement.
“The collaboration resulted in the detection of a new form of Industroyer virus. Which we called Industroyer2 with the help of [Ukrainian cyber authority] Cert-UA,” it said.
The piece of malware known as Industroyer was used in 2016 to take down power substations in Kyiv for around an hour.
The hacker squad known as Sandworm is purportedly a Russian cyber-military unit.
Although Russia denies responsibility for the cyber-attacks. The US and EU have officially blamed Sandworm for both events. Cyber authorities have named several individual hacking suspects.
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