US Government Warns Of 'Ongoing' Hacks Targeting Nuclear and Power Industries (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader quotes Reuters: The U.S government issued a rare public warning that sophisticated hackers are targeting energy and industrial firms, the latest sign that cyber attacks present an increasing threat to the power industry and other public infrastructure. The Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation warned in a report distributed by email late on Friday that the nuclear, energy, aviation, water and critical manufacturing industries have been targeted along with government entities in attacks dating back to at least May. The agencies warned that hackers had succeeded in compromising some targeted networks, but did not identify specific victims or describe any cases of sabotage. The objective of the attackers is to compromise organizational networks with malicious emails and tainted websites to obtain credentials for accessing computer networks of their targets, the report said.
According to the report, the Department of Homeland Security "has confidence that this campaign is still ongoing and threat actors are actively pursuing their objectives over a long-term campaign."

Comments

Microsoft's fault

[atomicalgebra]

Any bets the majority of compromised computers ran a version of windows? We need to stop using Windows in these environments.

Re:Well..

[rmdingler]

The US does not represent the worst possible outcome for the rest of the World as its preeminent Superpower. Far from it.

For starters, though, it would be nice to measure our worth by how much better we could be doing, as opposed to setting the bar at how much worse we could be.