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I was in charge of the recovery team digging St Paul, MN out of a Russian based malware outage this past summer. It took out water, police, and other municipal facilities.
I feel like these attacks are just test probes and the ones which get through are to incite chaos.
If a hot war broke out with Russia and the US, I believe that there would be massive city outages across both countries. Between Russia and the EU, I think Russia would knock out a proportionately larger number than the inverse.
Russia? To the complete surprise of one, maybe two people on the face of the planet.
cybersecurity for both their IT and operational technology systems[…]
remote access credentials and used them to remotely trigger circuit breakers, "using either existing remote administration tools at the operating system level or remote industrial control system (ICS) client software via virtual private network (VPN) connections."
Why are your critical infrastructure on the internet, Donald Tusk?