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John FitzGerald
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Three Russian spies spent five years targeting energy infrastructure in 135 countries in an effort to enable the Russian government to gain remote control of power plants, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in an indictment unsealed on Thursday.
politico.com
Russian spies indicted in worldwide hacks of energy industry, including Kansas nuclear plant
Their targets worked at more than 500 different entities, including the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to the indictment.
2:01 PM · Mar 24, 2022
John FitzGerald
@TheTweetOfJohn
Three Russian spies spent five years targeting energy infrastructure in 135 countries in an effort to enable the Russian government to gain remote control of power plants, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in an indictment unsealed on Thursday.
politico.com
Russian spies indicted in worldwide hacks of energy industry, including Kansas nuclear plant
Their targets worked at more than 500 different entities, including the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to the indictment.
2:01 PM · Mar 24, 2022
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/24/russian-spies-indicted-hack-nuclear-plant-00020217
Three Russian spies spent five years targeting energy infrastructure in 135 countries in an effort to enable the Russian government to gain remote control of power plants, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in an indictment unsealed on Thursday.
From 2012 to 2014, according to the indictment unsealed in a district court in Kansas, the three FSB officers Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulov, Mikhail Mikhailovich Gavrilov, and Marat Valeryevich Tyukov worked to hide malware in software updates used by systems that control the equipment in power plants. That tactic and others let the accused install malware on 17,000 devices around the world. The attacks had been previously disclosed in 2018.
From 2014 to 2017, Akulov, Gavrilov and Tyukov are accused of using spearphishing and other tactics to home in on more than 3,300 specific people working in the energy industry. Their targets worked at more than 500 different entities, including the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to the indictment. In one instance, they are alleged to have compromised the business network of Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp. in Kansas, which runs a nuclear power plant, though a Justice Department official ,who was granted anonymity as a condition of letting reporters join a press conference, said Thursday that the control systems network was not accessed.
The indictment was one of two unsealed Thursday against Russian hackers. A second indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia alleged that Russian national Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh and unnamed co-conspirators targeted a foreign oil facility and a U.S. energy company between 2017 and 2018.
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Russian spies indicted in worldwide hacks of energy industry, including Kansas nuclear plant (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2022
OP
WA-03 Democrat
(3,017 posts)1. Nuclear is so
awesome. Please tell me again why solar and wind are foolish?
halfulglas
(1,654 posts)2. The indictment comes now because guess who as president in 2018.
ck4829
(34,981 posts)3. It is time to label Russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism
There would be no kid gloves if Iran or ISIS tried this.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)4. Russia also needs to be removed from the UN Security Council.
Enough already.
Duppers
(28,094 posts)5. This is serious stuff.
K&R