{"id":579807,"date":"2023-05-27T11:43:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T06:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=579807"},"modified":"2023-05-27T11:43:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T06:13:40","slug":"russia-linked-malware-can-cause-electric-power-disruption-in-multiple-countries-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/russia-linked-malware-can-cause-electric-power-disruption-in-multiple-countries-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-linked malware can cause electric power disruption in multiple countries: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new malware that can cause electric power disruption in countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The malware attacks critical infrastructure systems and electric grids, a report said.<\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity company Mandiant said that it identified novel operational technology (OT) \/ industrial control system (ICS)-oriented malware, which it tracks as COSMICENERGY. It said that the malware was uploaded to a public malware scanning utility in December 2021 by a submitter in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The malware can cause electric power disruption by interacting with devices such as remote terminal units (RTUs) that are commonly leveraged in electric transmission and distribution operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of cybersecurity researchers have spotted a new malware that can cause electric power disruption in countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. The malware attacks critical infrastructure systems and electric grids, a report said. Cybersecurity company Mandiant said that it identified novel operational technology (OT) \/ industrial control system (ICS)-oriented malware, which it tracks as COSMICENERGY. It said that the malware was uploaded to a public malware scanning utility in December 2021 by a submitter in Russia. The malware can cause electric power disruption by interacting with devices such as remote terminal units (RTUs) that are commonly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579807","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}