Hackers of Ukrainian Utilities Probably Hit Mining and Railroad Targets, Too (csoonline.com)

itwbennett writes: Trend Micro said Thursday that its latest technical research shows that the same malware — dubbed BlackEnergy and KillDisk — were likely used in attacks on a mining company and a railway operator that preceded the devastating power-company hacks and that those earlier attacks may have been test runs. 'The malware used in the attacks, known as Black Energy, has been linked by the security firm iSight Partners to a group nicknamed the Sandworm Team, which is suspected to be from Russia,' writes Jeremy Kirk.

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Re:Do you believe this crap?

[Anonymous Coward]

Your link is to a Crimea power outage in November. This is about an outage in Ukraine in December. You're the one spewing crap.