Causality

31: Black Energy


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The evening before Christmas Eve in 2015 saw a widespread blackout of the power grid across the Ukraine. We look at how a cyber-attack on electric utility companies in Europe, changed how cyber-security is regarded in control systems, forever.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

  • December 2015 Ukraine Power Grid Cyber-attack
  • Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid [PDF]
  • Ukraine Report: When The Lights Went Out [PDF]
  • Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid
  • Cyber-Attack Against Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure
  • Everything We Know About Ukraine’s Power Plant Hack
  • BlackEnergy
  • BlackEnergy, Grid-Disrupting Malware, Has a Successor, Researchers Warn
  • Scary Questions in Ukraine Energy Grid Hack
  • Ukraine Cyber Induced Power Outage: Analysis And Practical Mitigation Strategies [PDF]
  • New Clues Show How Russia’s Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction
  • Industroyer: An in-depth Look At The Culprit Behind Ukraine’s Power Grid Blackout
  • Ukrainian Power Grids Cyber-attack
  • Russian Translation: Obelnergo Message to Consumers
  • MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus
  • MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
  • iRZ RUH2
  • IRZ RUH2 3G Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
  • NCCIC: Ukrainian Power Attack
  • US Wants To Isolate Power Grids With ‘Retro’ Technology To Limit Cyber-attacks
  • LinkedIn Is A Hacker’s Dream Tool

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