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CERT-In had alerted grid controllers about China-backed cyberattacks in November SECTIONS Share Synopsis A New York Times report on Sunday cited a study by Recorded Future, a Massachusettes-based outfit that studies the internet use by state actors, to raise doubt Chinese state-backed hackers may have caused the October 12 power outage in Mumbai to warn India against strong pushback in the border row in Ladakh. Agencies The national grid operator and its regional units were on November 19 alert...

Government insiders said India’s cybersecurity agency CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency response Team) had in November detected ShadowPad malware, one of the largest supply chain attacks. The national grid operator and its regional units were on November 19 alerted about the malware and threats of other attempts at hacking. On February 12, another government cybersecurity agency, NCIIPC (National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre) rang the alarm bell over Red Echo, a Chi...

Power grid was actually breached. that discovery at the burlington, vermont, electric department sparking new concerns that moscow could hack american utilities. >> this computer was not connected to our grid control systems. at no time was our electric grid breached or penetrated, and we have no indication of compromise of our electric grid systems or any customer information. gregg: the government says the malware is the same malicious software used by russian hackers to breach the dnc during ...

Compromised. heres the manager of burlington electric in vermont. >> we found an i.p. address that is tied back to some of the recent malicious cyber activity that was communicating with one of our computers. let me be very clear, that computer was not connected to our grid control systems. our grid was not penetrated. it was not breached. and we have no indication of compromise with any of our systems or any of our customer data. but what we did is when we saw that traffic we immediately isolat...

Thursday about malware found on the democratic national committee computers during the elections. something blamed on the russians. burlington electric found an internet address associated with that malware. it was communicating with a company laptop. the electric company isolated the computer, pulling it off the network and alerting federal authorities. the department of homeland security is now acknowledging it was, in fact, the same code used in malicious cyber activity the u.s. government bl...

Im fredricka whitfield. a vermont utility company said there is no indication that their systems were hacked or compromised after malware linked to russian hackers was on a company laptop. the malware was not unique and no evidence of an attempt to tamper with the electric grid. however, the department of homeland security says the malware matches codes found on democratic party computers. utility officials are revealing more details on this intrusion. >> we found an ip address that is tied back...

Say was russian hacking during the election season. >> even though this, if it was an attempt -- i mean, theres more they have to find out -- but even if it was not successful, the real question is the impact it could have, right? and the utility company is talking about this. what are they saying? >> the general manager of the utility company coming out strongly and assuring customers that everything is okay. this was not, in fact, a hack, and nothing was compromised. heres what we said. >> let...

Is tied back to some of the recent malicious cyber activity that was communicating with one of our computers. let me be very clear, that computer was not connected to our grid control systems. our grid was not penetrated, it was not breached and we have no indication of compromise with any of our systems or any of our customer data, but what we did is when we saw that traffic we immediately isolated the machine, pulled it off the network, alerted federal authorities and began to work with them s...

Laptop of a vermont electric company. burlington electric department general manager neiale lunderville is joining us from burlington, vermont. first of all, authorities tell us that the malware appears to be the same type that u.s. intelligence agencies say that russia used to hack the dnc before the election but your company just put out a statement saying this is not unique. so what have you learned about the malware. >> so what we learned is first we take cyber security very seriously, like ...