Overhead aerial of Transamerica pyramid at night, San Francisco, California. (Getty Images) DOE announces $45 million investment for cybersecurity research The funding goes to 16 projects aimed at developing advanced tools to protect the energy sector. Feb 26, 2024 By Christian Vasquez
PARASKOVIIVKA, UKRAINE – DECEMBER 17: An electric substation of salt mine on December 17, 2022 in Paraskoviivka, Ukraine. Now local residents remain in the village and the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. There is no electricity, the village is under constant shelling. Communication works only on the pedestrian bridge via the railway. The salt mines of the state enterprise “Artemsil” stopped working due to hostilities at the end of May. (Photo by Vitalii Pavlenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images) Russian hackers disrupted Ukrainian electrical grid last year The notorious Russian hacking group known as Sandworm took down a substation that caused a brief outage, according to a new Mandiant report. Nov 9, 2023 By Christian Vasquez AJ Vicens
(Getty Images) Wind turbine giant Vestas says data was compromised in security incident The company says it's getting its systems back online. Nov 22, 2021 By Tim Starks
(Getty Images) Senior Department of Energy cyber official to step down Bruce Walker has been a key player in the department’s efforts to protect U.S. utilities from state-sponsored hacking threats. Sep 16, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
A spokesperson for National Grid ESO — Britain’s national electricity system operator — said the organization was investigating the incident. (Getty Images) Cyberattack hits internal IT systems of key player in British power market Employees don't have email access, but external systems aren't affected. May 14, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
The latest GridEx exercise saw malware compromise the industrial control systems that utilities use to manage their operations. (Getty Images) North American utilities drill ‘GridEx’ brings record turnout — except from supply chain vendors GridEx used mock malware modeled after the 2016 cyberattack in Ukraine. Apr 1, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas
Hackers had access to European electricity organization’s email server for weeks: report Unidentified hackers reportedly used an open-source tool to communicate with the server for over a month. Mar 13, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas