Cybersecurity threats escalate in the energy sector
Aug 19, 2024
Six individuals working for Russian intelligence were charged in Pennsylvania in October 2020 for their role in ‘Sandworm’. In addition to hacking into chemical laboratories in the UK and the Netherlands, and targeting victims at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea, they stood accused of a cyberattack on Ukraine’s electricity grid in 2015. A year after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, this was the first known example of a successful cyberattack on a power grid. A total of 30 electrical substations were switched off and around 230,000 people were left without electricity for up to six hours.
