Some of the world’s most dangerous hackers have zeroed in on the U.S. power sector in recent months, according to a nonpublic alert issued by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. this spring and new research.
The grid regulator sounded the alarm on March 1 with the industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos Inc. over a notorious hacking group known as “Xenotime” in the report. Xenotime has been spotted hitting U.S. electric utilities with “reconnaissance and potential initial access operations” since late last year, the alert said.
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