episode 31: Black Energy
The evening before Christmas Eve in 2015 saw a widespread blackout of the power grid across the Ukraine. We look at how a cyber-attack on electric utility companies in Europe, changed how cyber-security is regarded in control systems, forever.
With John Chidgey.
Links of potential interest:
- December 2015 Ukraine Power Grid Cyber-attack
- Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid [PDF]
- Ukraine Report: When The Lights Went Out [PDF]
- Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid
- Cyber-Attack Against Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure
- Everything We Know About Ukraine’s Power Plant Hack
- BlackEnergy
- BlackEnergy, Grid-Disrupting Malware, Has a Successor, Researchers Warn
- Scary Questions in Ukraine Energy Grid Hack
- Ukraine Cyber Induced Power Outage: Analysis And Practical Mitigation Strategies [PDF]
- New Clues Show How Russia’s Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction
- Industroyer: An in-depth Look At The Culprit Behind Ukraine’s Power Grid Blackout
- Ukrainian Power Grids Cyber-attack
- Russian Translation: Obelnergo Message to Consumers
- MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus
- MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
- iRZ RUH2
- IRZ RUH2 3G Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
- NCCIC: Ukrainian Power Attack
- US Wants To Isolate Power Grids With ‘Retro’ Technology To Limit Cyber-attacks
- LinkedIn Is A Hacker’s Dream Tool
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Episode Gold Producer: 'r'.
Episode Silver Producers: Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow, Joseph Antonio and Kevin Koch.