Security News > 2022 > January > US govt warns of Russian hackers targeting critical infrastructure

The FBI, CISA, and the NSA have warned critical infrastructure network defenders to be ready to detect and block incoming attacks targeting organizations from US critical infrastructure sectors, orchestrated by Russian-backed hacking groups.

"In some cases, Russian state-sponsored cyber operations against critical infrastructure organizations have specifically targeted operational technology/industrial control systems networks with destructive malware."

Russian state-sponsored APT actors targeting state, local, tribal, and territorial governments and aviation networks, September 2020, through at least December 2020.

Russian state-sponsored APT actors' campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure, 2015 and 2016.

In a third joint advisory published in April, the FBI, DHS, and CIA alerted US orgs of continued attacks linked to the Russian SVR against the US and foreign organizations.

In July, the US government also announced it's offering a reward of up to $10 million through its Rewards for Justice program for info on malicious cyber activities conducted by state-sponsored threat actors targeting the country's critical infrastructure sectors.

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