The hacking attack left thousands of citizens in western Ukraine without power in December. Image by Juanedc on Flickr, CC BY 2.0.
The alleged cyber-attack that led to a temporary outage of the Ukrainian power grid was likely perpetuated by Russian hackers, according to US researchers.
The cybersecurity research team iSIGHT Partners told Infosecurity Magazine that it was the work of the Russian hacker collective known as the Sandworm Team.
Ukraine’s state security service has also blamed Russia for the blackout in Ukraine’s western Ivano-Frankivsk region on December 23 that affected about 80,000 citizens. At the time, a local power company, Prycarpattyaoblenergo, …read more
Source: Global Voices
