While penetrating the network of down line vendors, the Russian hackers have 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 JOURNAL.
the State sponsored Hacking team, which aims at serious threat to critical infrastructure, which has been on the watch list of the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) science 2014. Which is using the stolen credentials which were gained from spear-phishing emails and watering-whole 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 activities of Russian hacking group happened in the late summer 2017, according to the email from DHS spokesmen Lesley Fulop.
In fact Fulop has wrote that DHS has hosted a webinar on 23rd July to share the actionable information with its industry and Government partners to help them better protect their networks and improve the nation's collective defense against the cyber attacks.
In order to defend against the huge cyber security the huge cyber security threats from Russia and other nation state attacks, the cyber-security community and the US Government should need to act, said Steve Kahan, CMO, Thycotic. "the NIST framework cyber security, However, to be truly effective, the NIST regulation must complete the operators of essintial services to deliver higher levels of cyber-security
and require that these essential services remain available during an attack. "
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