Digital attackers are increasingly targeting energy organizations including those that support national electric grids. As reported by Morning Consult, security researchers found that utilities worldwide had suffered a recorded 1,780 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks between June 15 and August 21, 2020. That’s a 595% year-over-year increase. Brandon Robinson, a partner at Balch & Bingham LLP, […]
The New York Times reported on June 15 that “the United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin.” In particular, the Times reported that the United States has deployed code “inside Russia’s grid and other targets”—that is, “potentially crippling malware inside the Russian […]
Experts at Dragos firm reported that Xenotime threat actor behind the 2017 Trisis/Triton malware attack is targeting electric utilities in the US and APAC. Xenotime threat actor is considered responsible for the 2017 Trisis/Triton malware attack that hit oil and gas organizations. In December 2017, the Triton malware (aka Trisis) was discovered by researchers at FireEye, it was specifically […]
Xenotime, the threat actor behind the 2017 Trisis/Triton malware attack, is now targeting — in addition to oil and gas organizations — electric utilities in the United States and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. read more SecurityWeek RSS Feed