The US Grid Attack Looming on the Horizon

When the lights are In April, the Iberian Peninsula took a walk, everything stopped. Pwar in the underground subway system of Madrid fell into a trap. Hospitals in Lisbon were united to move to emergency generators. Internet service until Greenland and Moroccan went out.

The reason was not known, but the real damage to the people where the Iberian power network and serves was relatively minor. Less than 24 hours After Arangin, the region’s electricity operators were able to return the grid online.

Although things can be worse, the cut was finally a reminder of how the sudden they can go offline.

Cyberstitisic experts, guards and government agencies for years warned that a harmful cyberscore can be devastated in the power network. The state’s sponsored hack groups are more sharply than the extensive evidence that the centralized and deep sensitive power network.

At the point of the case: hackers, years spent, it is believed to be associated with the Chinese government There are no tasks In the critical infrastructure along the mainland United States and Guam to get access to systems. Volt Typhoon transactions could use the parts of the American energy network or to close or separate the parts of millions of people. It was a patch of sound, happiness, broken and weaknesses. Again, it is an important description of the power system is really sensitive.

We know that such a hack can look like. In 2015, Ukraine lived The world’s first large-scale Kyberatik in an electric network. A Russian military intelligence unit known as Sandworm The central network left various substations and hit hundreds of thousands of people offline.

The attack on Ukraine was quickly renovated, but cybermain experts warned that the next one could be more destructive for years.

Unlike Ukraine, America does not have a single network of power – this is the three large ones divided into one network of small regional systems to reach Canada. The majority of the east is on a network, most of the West are on the other side, Texas and Alaska are working with each other. The use of these networks is a savagely complicated effort: thousands of utilities, tens of thousands of substations and hundreds of thousands of kilometers of high voltage transmission lines.

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