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Analysis confirms coordinated hack attack caused Ukrainian power outage
The people who carried out last month's first known hacker-caused power outage used highly destructive malware to gain a foothold into multiple regional distribution power companies in Ukraine and to delay restoration efforts once electricity had been shut off, a newly published analysis confirms.
The malware known as BlackEnergy allowed the attackers to gain a foothold on the power-company systems, said the report, which was...