Ukraine’s senior cyber-security authorities claim they were informed of the possibility of an assault on the country’s electricity systems before Russia’s invasion. Hackers attempted to take down substations, resulting in blackouts for two million people. The malicious software employed in the assault is identical to that used by Russian hackers to create blackouts in Kyiv in the past. According to researchers, sandworm, a Russian military outfit, is believed to be responsible. Industroyer is the term given to the virus used in 2016 to shut down power substations in Kyiv temporarily.
Sandworm is also suspected of being responsible for outages that impacted more than 200,000 houses in Ukraine the previous year. The United States has identified several guys it thinks are members of the Sandworm hacking organization, which the FBI seeks.
