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The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity revealed this week that malicious actors breached its corporate network. TSOs are responsible for the transmission of electric power across the main high-voltage networks, and ENTSO-E works with them on the implementation of energy policies and achieving Europe's energy and climate policy objectives.
Tripwire, a leading global provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations has announced a technology partnership with power management company Eaton. With this partnership, Tripwire and Eaton are making it easier and faster for U.S. utilities to comply with evolving cybersecurity requirements, including North American Electric Reliability Corporation critical infrastructure protection.
Hackers who may have ties to Iran have recently turned their attention to the European energy sector, using open source tools to target one firm's network as part of an cyberespionage operation, according to the security firm Recorded Future. The precise goal of the campaign that the Recorded Future analysts describe in a report released Thursday is not clear, although other studies have found that several Iranian-backed advanced persistent threat groups have targeted U.S. and European businesses connected to the energy sector over the last several years - before the tensions between the U.S. and Iran recently heated up.
Attacks recently identified to target a key organization in the European energy sector have employed a remote access Trojan previously associated with Iran-linked threat actors, Recorded Future reports. The researchers were able to identify a PupyRAT command and control server that communicated with a mail server for a European energy sector organization between November 2019 and at least January 5, 2020.
Xcel Energy announced that James W. Sample will join the company as Vice President, Chief Security Officer. Sample will lead the company's security risk management program, overseeing all aspects of security including cybersecurity, physical security and the safety of personnel.
Legislation that aims to protect the U.S. energy grid from cyberattacks passed the House this week after being added to the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The 2020 NDAA passed the...
'ZeroCleare' Malware Suspected of Being Tied to Iran, IBM X-Force ReportsA new malware campaign suspected of being tied to Iran has been targeting companies in the energy and industrial sectors in...
ZeroCleare wipes up where Shamoon left off An Iran-based hacking crew long known to target energy facilities in neighboring Middle Eastern countries is believed to be launching new attacks.…
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new, previously undiscovered destructive data-wiping malware that is being used by state-sponsored hackers in the wild to target energy and industrial...
Researchers at IBM X-Force have come across what appears to be a new piece of malware that has been used in highly targeted attacks aimed at energy and industrial organizations in the Middle East....