The US is alleged to have been quietly planting malware throughout Russia’s energy networks in response to years of Russian attacks on its own power grid.
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DARPA uses a remote island to stage a cyberattack on the US power grid
It enacted a worst-case, “black start” scenario: swaths of the country’s grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted.
Your smart air conditioner could contribute to mass power outages
Researchers call the scenario BlackIoT: an IoT botnet of high-wattage devices that could crash the power grid.
US agency in charge of power grid and nukes keeps getting breached
US Department of Energy was hacked 159 times over a four-year period, putting the security of the power grid and nuclear arsenal at risk.