While penetrating the network of downline vendors, the Russian Hackers gained access to a reportedly secure, isolated network, which is basically allowing them to eventually reach the control rooms of US utilities, according to the Wall Street Journals.
The state-sponsored hacking team, which aims at serious threat to critical infrastructure, which has been the watch list of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) scene 2014. Which is using the stolen credentials which were gained from spear-phishing emails and watering-hole attacks, the hacker's activities which went undetected, and allowed them to steal all the confidential information and "familiarize themselves with how the facilities were supposed to work" WSJ reported.
This hacking activity of Russian Hacking group happened in the late summer 2017, according to the emails from DHS spokesman Lesley Fulop.
Infact, Fulop has wrote that DHS has hosted a webinar on 23rd July to share actionable information with its industry and Government partners to help them better protect their networks and improve the nation's collective defence against the cyber attacks.
In order to defence against the huge cyber security threats from Russia and other nation state attacks, the cybersecurity community and the US Government need to act, said Steve Kahan, CMO, Thycotic. "The NIST framework cybersecurity, However, to be truly effective, the NIST regulation must comply the operators of essential services to deliver higher levels of cybersecurity and require that essential services
available during these Hacking attacks.
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