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BlackEnergy


BlackEnergy, Grid-Disrupting Malware, Has a Successor, Researchers Warn
cybersecurity

BlackEnergy, the malware used in a cyberattack that prompted a large-scale blackout in Ukraine in December 2015, has a successor—GreyEnergy. A group is using the malware to target industrial networks…


U.S. Cybersecurity Super Team Reveals How Attackers Prompted Ukraine Blackouts

External malicious actors deployed a "synchronized and coordinated" cyberattack to prompt the large-scale blackout in Ukraine last December, a U.S. interagency team has confirmed. The event on December 23, 2015— the…