Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russian attackers turned online this month to continue their onslaught and attempted to disable a Ukrainian energy company. The hackers tried to disconnect several high-voltage substations from a section of the country’s electric grid but were foiled by Ukraine’s computer emergency response team (CERT-UA) with the help of researchers from ESET and Microsoft.
Russia’s hacker group known as Sandworm, a division of the GRU, the intelligence arm of the Russian military, is thought to be behind the attempted attack. The consensus among industry thought leaders is that the thwarted incident is a victory for Ukraine.
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