{"id":72365,"date":"2017-09-06T12:42:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/hackers-attacking-us-and-european-energy-firms-could-sabotage-power-grids"},"modified":"2017-09-06T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:42:45","slug":"hackers-attacking-us-and-european-energy-firms-could-sabotage-power-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/hackers-attacking-us-and-european-energy-firms-could-sabotage-power-grids","title":{"rendered":"Hackers attacking US and European energy firms could sabotage power grids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-attacking-us-and-european-energy-firms-could-sabotage-power-grids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, Symantec reports, the group has resumed operations, apparently working since late 2015 to investigate and penetrate energy facilities in at least three countries: the US, Turkey and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/switzerland\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" class=\"\">Switzerland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dragonfly group appears to be interested in both learning how energy facilities operate and also gaining access to operational systems themselves, to the extent that the group now potentially has the ability to sabotage or gain control of these systems should it decide to do so,\u201d the cybersecurity firm warns.<\/p>\n<p>Dragonfly\u2019s methods are varied, but all its attacks seem to be focused on researching the inner workings of energy firms. It has been seen sending malicious emails with attachments that leak internal network credentials, which are then used to install backdoors on the network allowing the hackers to take control of computers and systems. They\u2019ve also been seen seeding fake flash updates to install the backdoors and carrying out \u201cwatering hole\u201d attacks, hacking third-party websites that were likely to be visited by people working in the energy sector.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/06\/hackers-attacking-power-grids-in-us-and-europe-have-potential-to-sabotage\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/06\/hackers-a...o-sabotage<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, Symantec reports, the group has resumed operations, apparently working since late 2015 to investigate and penetrate energy facilities in at least three countries: the US, Turkey and Switzerland. \u201cThe Dragonfly group appears to be interested in both learning how energy facilities operate and also gaining access to operational systems themselves, to the extent that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}