Now, in Ukraine, the quintessential cyberwar scenario has come to life. Twice. On separate occasions, invisible saboteurs have turned off the electricity to hundreds of thousands of people. Each blackout lasted a matter of hours, only as long as it took for scrambling engineers to manually switch the power on again. But as proofs of concept, the attacks set a new precedent: In Russia’s shadow, the decades-old nightmare of hackers stopping the gears of modern society has become a reality.
“Russia will never accept a sovereign, independent Ukraine. Twenty-five years since the Soviet collapse, Russia is still sick with this imperialistic syndrome.” But Yasinsky felt uneasy. The two machines had gone dark at almost the same minute. “One server going down, it happens,” Yasinsky says. “But two servers at the same time? That’s suspicious.”
Nonetheless, Yasinsky could see he’d been lucky. Looking at StarLight’s network logs, it appeared the domain controllers had committed suicide prematurely. They’d actually been set to infect and destroy 200 more PCs at the company. Soon Yasinsky heard from a competing media firm called TRK that it had been less fortunate: That company lost more than a hundred computers to an identical attack.
Even then, Yasinsky didn’t know the real dimensions of the threat. He had no idea, for instance, that by December 2015, BlackEnergy and KillDisk were also lodged inside the computer systems of at least three major Ukrainian power companies, lying in wait.It was Christmas Eve 2015—and also, it so happened, the day before Lee was set to be married in his hometown of Cullman, Alabama.
Lee eventually retreated to his mother’s desktop computer in his parents’ house nearby. Working in tandem with Assante, who was at a friend’s Christmas party in rural Idaho, they pulled up maps of Ukraine and a chart of its power grid. The three power companies’ substations that had been hit were in different regions of the country, hundreds of miles from one another and unconnected. “This was not a squirrel,” Lee concluded with a dark thrill.
No one knew much about the group’s intentions. But all signs indicated that the hackers were Russian: FireEye had traced one of Sandworm’s distinctive intrusion techniques to a presentation at a Russian hacker conference. And when FireEye’s engineers managed to access one of Sandworm’s unsecured command-and-control servers, they found instructions for how to use BlackEnergy written in Russian, along with other Russian-language files.
Are you done ? Let's start talking about US, UK now .. let's start with Vietnam, Libya, Somalia, Iraq , Afghanistan, Argentina, Mexico.. and many many more countries.. be responsible in your reporting else don't
The quote is a little misplaced. Let us look to England, Spain, France, United States, China and Japan as well. All of these countries at one time have had imperialistic machinations. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union so can we blame Russia for wanting it back?
We will not go on forever... regime's change.
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This is not about Ukraine, is about NATO.
This post is all part of the Great Reset agenda. The reset of nations. One World Order is coming.
funny you think USA is a democratic system...
Cyberwar? That country one of the poorest country in world ..they haviny cyber war..really a joke
Those who call for NATO involvement or Total isolation on Russia Promoting WW3 & Economic catastrophe on z World! Rather tell NATO to compromise on its Expansion & halt it. Btw, WHY is this hard2 NATO to stop expansion? It tells Russia is RIGHT