Reported Cyber Attacks on U.S. Electric Utilities and Government Agencies

Hundreds of contractors and subcontractors with connections to U.S. electric utilities and government agencies have been hacked, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal. The U.S. government has linked the hackers to a Russian state-sponsored group, sometimes called Dragonfly or Energetic Bear. The U.S. government alerted the public that the hacking campaign started in March 2016, if not earlier, although many of its victims were unaware of the incident until notified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security, the Wall Street Journal reports. Instead of using sophisticated techniques to directly attack utilities companies, the hackers largely “exploited trusted business relationships using impersonation and trickery” to access the networks of U.S. electric utilities, such as by planting malware on sites of online publications frequently read by utility engineers and through clever spear phishing emails. According…

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