Yeah, this is bad: Russian hackers infiltrate U.S. power grid

No need to panic, folks! Just Russian hackers claiming “hundreds of victims” to infiltrate U.S. electric utilities, giving them the ability to cause blackouts.

The state-sponsored hackers used fairly common tactics to compromise the vendors that supplied those utilities, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials who talked to the Wall Street Journal.

They then stole credentials from those corporations to gain access to the utilities. The hackers belonged to a “shadowy” group previously called Dragonfly or Energetic Bear, which is believed to be sponsored by the Russian government.  Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Yeah, this is bad: Russian hackers infiltrate U.S. power grid