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SECURITY: 'Denial of service' attack caused grid cyber disruption: DOE
SECURITY: 'Denial of service' attack caused grid cyber disruption ...
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060254751
A recent cyber disruption to the U.S. grid involved a "denial of service condition" at a Western utility, according to a Department of Energy official. ... Denial-of-service, or DOS, cyberattacks overwhelm target networks with bogus traffic, making it difficult for victim computers to operate normally.
'Denial of service condition' disrupted US energy company operations ...
https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/02/ddos-attack-california-energy/
“DOE received a report about a denial-of-service condition that occurred at an electric ... have long been a target for hackers, but successful attacks are rare. ... also blamed Russia for attempting to break in to U.S. power grids. “DOE received a report about a denial-of-service condition that occurred at an electric utility on March 5, 2019 related to a known vulnerability that required a previously published software update to mitigate company wasn’t named, but it provides power and energy to customers across Los Angeles in California, Salt Lake County in Utah, and Converse County in Wyoming. “The incident did not impact generation, the reliability of the grid or cause any customer outages,”
DDoS attack caused 'interruptions' in power system operations: DoE
https://www.cnbc.com/.../ddos-attack-caused-interruptions-in-power-system-operation...
Electrical grid operations in two huge U.S. population areas — Los Angeles County in California, and Salt Lake County in Utah — were ...denial of service attack, which involves overwhelming computer systems with information in a bid to take them down, successfully interrupted electrical systems in Los Angeles County and Salt Lake County in March, according to the Department of Energy. rare example of as against an energy utility, particularly in a high population area.
Denial of service attacks are relatively rudimentary, and unlikely to be the work of a nation-state, one expert told CNBC.
December 2015 Ukraine power grid cyberattack - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2015_Ukraine_power_grid_cyberattack
December 2015 Ukraine power grid cyberattack took place on 23 December 2015 and is ... with the KillDisk malware;; denial-of-service attack on call-center to deny consumers ... Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid.
The Growing Threat of Denial-of-Service Attacks - Electric Light & Power
https://www.elp.com/.../powergrid.../the-growing-threat-of-denial-of-service-attacks.ht...
Feb 12, 2015 - Sahba Kazerooni of Security Compass lists four ways DDoS attacks have evolved and six things the electric and gas industries must do to keep up with the growing cyberthreat. ... More
NPR 5/4/2019 we can't tell if they were just hackers, terrorist or nation state like China Russia or North Korea
Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid - The New York Times...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/us/.../russian-hackers-electric-grid-elections-.html
Jul 27, 2018 - WASHINGTON — State-sponsored Russian hackers appear far more ... utility grid than the midterm elections, according to United States intelligence officials ... While the department cited “hundreds of victims” of the attacks, far more than ... from any nation state to other malicious actors,” the statement said. according to intelligence officials and executives of the companies that oversee the world’s computer networks, there is surprisingly far more effort directed at implanting malware in the electrical grid. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence findings, but their conclusions were confirmed by several executives of technology and technology security firms.
over the last year, Russia’s military intelligence agency had infiltrated the control rooms of power plants across the United States. In theory, that could enable it to take control of parts of the grid by remote control. While the department cited “hundreds of victims” of the attacks, far more than they had previously acknowledged, there is no evidence that the hackers tried to take over the plants, as Russian actors did in Ukraine in 2015 and 2016.
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