{"id":484427,"date":"2022-04-16T09:21:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T03:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=484427"},"modified":"2022-04-16T10:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T04:30:50","slug":"ukraine-foils-russia-backed-massive-cyber-attack-on-its-power-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ukraine-foils-russia-backed-massive-cyber-attack-on-its-power-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine foils Russia-backed massive cyber attack on its power grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has foiled a massive cyber attack on its power grid that was the handiwork of Russia-backed hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian officials said they stopped an attack on an energy facility with the help of researchers from cybersecurity firm ESET and Microsoft, reports The Record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They discovered a new variant of Industroyer, an infamous piece of malware that was used by the Sandworm APT group in 2016 to cut power in Ukraine,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (or CERT-UA), the hackers used &#8216;Industroyer&#8217; to target &#8220;several infrastructural elements&#8221; including high-voltage electrical substations, computers at the facility, network equipment and server equipment running Linux operating systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine has foiled a massive cyber attack on its power grid that was the handiwork of Russia-backed hackers. Ukrainian officials said they stopped an attack on an energy facility with the help of researchers from cybersecurity firm ESET and Microsoft, reports The Record. &#8220;They discovered a new variant of Industroyer, an infamous piece of malware that was used by the Sandworm APT group in 2016 to cut power in Ukraine,&#8221; the report said. According to the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (or CERT-UA), the hackers used &#8216;Industroyer&#8217; to target &#8220;several infrastructural elements&#8221; including high-voltage electrical substations, computers at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}