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Hackers tied to Russia’s GRU targeted the US grid for years

Enlarge (credit: Yuri Smityuk | Getty Images) For all the nation-state hacker groups that have targeted the United States power grid—and even successfully breached American electric utilities—only the Russian military intelligence group known as Sandworm has been brazen enough to trigger actual blackouts, shutting the lights off in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016. Now one […]

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Six Russians accused of This Planet’s most Damaging hacks Whined

Expand (charge: US Justice Department) Seven men accused of taking out a few of the planet’s most damaging hacks–such as the NotPetya disc wiper and electricity grid strikes that knocked out power to get thousands and thousands of Ukrainians–were indicted in US federal court. The indictment stated that six guys are officers at a brazen […]