National Power Grids Increasingly Targeted in Cyber Attacks

Ukraine’s electric power grid is once again under cyberattack, just one month after a similar incident successfully brought down portions of the system and left millions in the dark. Worse, researchers studying the attacks say the malware believed responsible – a new version of the so-called BlackEnergy bug – has likely spread to numerous European power grids and is poised to infect many more. The attacks and spreading malware have left cybersecurity analysts scrambling to determine...

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