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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 alerted about the malware and threats of other attempts at hacking. (This story originally appeared in ...

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 Chinese state-sponsored actor group, trying to break into the grid control systems. It said the IPs in ...

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 the run-up to the election. in the meantime, the state department confirming that all 35 russian d...

Compromised. here's 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 isolated the machine, pulled it off the network, alerted federal authorities and began to work with them ...

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 blamed on russian hackers. so far, there is no further comment and no details on how or if this latest...