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Last month, the FBI issued an alert saying Russian hackers have scanned at least five unnamed energy companies for vulnerabilities. energy sector is particularly high, and CISA urged it in a statement Wednesday to be especially mindful of the mitigation measures recommended in the alert. Officials have said that Russian hacker interest in the U.S. government has warned critical infrastructure industries the gird for possible cyberattacks from Russia as retaliation for severe economic sanctions imposed on Moscow in response to its Feb. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which published the alert, declined to identify the threat actor. None of us want them to understand where they screwed up,” said Lee. “We’re actually one step ahead of the adversary. government and would not explain how the malware was discovered other than to say it was caught “before an attack was attempted.” Lee referred questions on the state actor’s identity to the U.S. Lee of Dragos, agreed that a state actor almost certainly crafted the malware, which he said was configured to initially target liquified natural gas and electric power sites in North America.
The CEO of another government partner, Robert M. In a report, it called the tools’ functionality was “consistent with the malware used in Russia’s prior physical attacks” though it acknowledged that the evidence linking it to Moscow is “largely circumstantial.” One of the cybersecurity firms involved, Mandiant, called the tools “exceptionally rare and dangerous.”