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

Posted by timothy on from the while-they-were-in-the-neighborhood dept.

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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  1. Do you believe this crap? by tetraverse · · Score: 3, Insightful

    First off, the Ukraine powercuts were caused by old fashioned sabotage. Secondly no amount of malware can knock out the power generators as they are not controlled by SCADA units running Microsoft windows and directly connected to the Internet. ref
    --

    PROTHERO: Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?

    DASCOMBE: It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people --

    PROTHERO: "Exactly what they tell us." I Know but do you think that people will believe it?

    DASCOMBE: They will if it's you that's telling it to them. Now let's try it again    .

    1. Re:Do you believe this crap? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      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.

    2. Re:Do you believe this crap? by nemyax · · Score: 2

      Yeah Ukraine government was a corrupt spos (which is why Russia was so happy to see it gone, regardless of any public claims they make)

      These particular claims were quite sincere, and the Russian authorities really weren't chuffed about the situation. They didn't have a problem with someone being corrupt; what kind of problem is that? On the contrary, if your puppet is a greedy mofo, it's a chance for you to share in their lucrative little schemes.

  2. Yep, Russia did it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Really, Russia. No evidence, but its Russia.

    Man, slashdot sounding more and more like joining the rest of the presstitute media. Stick to reporting FACTS

  3. Re:If not Russia who else? by jeneag · · Score: 2

    How about point #4.

    #4 Ukrainian government did it in order to make gain more hatred towards Russia from Ukrainian people and justify obligatory military drafts. They also did it because US-installed coup government feels that world is tired of them whining and begging for money, and by doing so they can once again say that Russia is an aggressor that declared war on Ukraine.

    Given the dire situation in Ukraine, where people now earn less then poorest countries in Africa, the only drum they can beat on day in and day out has a label on it "It's because of Russia!"