31: Black Energy

The evening before Christmas Eve in 2015 saw a widespread blackout of the power grid across the Ukraine. We look at how a cyber-attack on electric utility companies in Europe, changed how cyber-security is regarded in control systems, forever.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• December 2015 Ukraine Power Grid Cyber-attack
• Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid [PDF]
• Ukraine Report: When The Lights Went Out [PDF]
• Inside the Cunning, Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine’s Power Grid
• Cyber-Attack Against Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure
• Everything We Know About Ukraine’s Power Plant Hack
• BlackEnergy
• BlackEnergy, Grid-Disrupting Malware, Has a Successor, Researchers Warn
• Scary Questions in Ukraine Energy Grid Hack
• Ukraine Cyber Induced Power Outage: Analysis And Practical Mitigation Strategies [PDF]
• New Clues Show How Russia’s Grid Hackers Aimed for Physical Destruction
• Industroyer: An in-depth Look At The Culprit Behind Ukraine’s Power Grid Blackout
• Ukrainian Power Grids Cyber-attack
• Russian Translation: Obelnergo Message to Consumers
• MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus
• MOXA UC-7408-LX Plus Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
• iRZ RUH2
• IRZ RUH2 3G Firmware Overwrite Vulnerability
• NCCIC: Ukrainian Power Attack
• US Wants To Isolate Power Grids With ‘Retro’ Technology To Limit Cyber-attacks
• LinkedIn Is A Hacker’s Dream Tool

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Episode Gold Producer: 'r'.
Episode Silver Producers: Carsten Hansen, John Whitlow, Joseph Antonio and Kevin Koch.