Puerto Rico's Power Utility, PREPA
March 19, 2018
•[ hack, energy ]
Puerto Rico's Power Utility, PREPA reveals to have been hacked over the weekend, but customer information was not compromised.
Unnamed petrochemical company in Saudi Arabia
March 15, 2018
•[ hack, energy ]
The New York Times reveals that back in August, a petrochemical company with a plant in Saudi Arabia was hit by a cyberattack aimed to sabotage the firm's operations and trigger an explosion.
Undisclosed water utility company
February 8, 2018
•[ financial, malware, energy ]
Researchers from Radiflow discover the first example of a malware attacking the operational network of a water utility company in order to mine the Monero cryptocurrency,
Electronic Gas Stations
January 19, 2018
•[ financial, malware, energy ]
Russian authorities identify a distributed malware campaign targeting electronic gas stations using software programs at the pumps. Dozens of gas stations have been attacked with customers paying more for fuel (around 3 to 7% increment per gallon).
Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield
August 21, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, energy ]
Sinopec's Shengli Oilfield says it will cut its Internet connection for some of its offices after a ransomware attacked 21 of its Internet terminals.
Ireland's Electricity Supply Board
July 15, 2017
•[ espionage, phishing, energy ]
The Times reveals that hackers backed by the Russian government have targeted the Republic of Ireland's energy sector, and aimed to infiltrate control systems. This would have given them the power to knock out parts of the grid in Northern Ireland. The attackers sent phishing emails to senior engineers at Ireland's Electricity Supply Board.
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation
June 30, 2017
•[ hack, phishing, energy ]
A threat actor targeted employees of companies that operate nuclear power plants in the United States, which prompted the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to issue an alert to the industry. An administrative network of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation was compromised.
West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company
May 12, 2017
•[ ransomware, malware, energy ]
A threat actor used a tool called WannaCry to encrypt data in compromised networks, and intended to provide the victims with the decryption key only after a ransom had been paid. The threat actors used an exploit, called EternalBlue--first discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency--to propagate WannaCry in organizations using the Windows operating system.
Energy networks of the Baltic states
May 11, 2017
•[ espionage, energy ]
Reuters reports that suspected Russia-backed hackers have launched exploratory cyber attacks against the energy networks of the Baltic states.
Sunrun
January 27, 2017
•[ social, phishing, energy ]
Solar panel maker Sunrun is hit with a spearphishing attack, impersonating the CEO Lynn Jurich, that gets away with the company employee W-2 information.
Turkish Energy Ministry
December 31, 2016
•[ hack, energy ]
Sources from the Energy Ministry claim that a major cyber-attack is the source of the widespread electricity cuts across Istanbul.
Ukrenergo
December 16, 2016
•[ hack, energy ]
Ukraine investigates a suspected cyber attack on Kyiv's power grid at the weekend, the latest in a series of strikes on its energy and financial infrastructure.
Two properties in the city of Lappeenranta
November 7, 2016
•[ hack, ddos, energy ]
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack halted heating distribution in at least two properties in the city of Lappeenranta, located in eastern Finland. In both of the events the attacks disabled the computers that were controlling heating in the buildings.
Unnamed German nuclear power plant
October 10, 2016
•[ hack, energy ]
According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director Yukiya Amano, a nuclear power plant became the target of a disruptive cyber attack two to three years ago.
Wesizwe
June 3, 2016
•[ leak, energy ]
In name of #OpAfrica, the Anonymous dump online data claimed to come from a database obtained from Wesizwe.
National Oil Corporation of Kenya
May 30, 2016
•[ hack, energy ]
World Hacker team hacks the National Oil Corporation of Kenya and posted a link online containing the database dump.
RWE Gundremmingen plant
April 26, 2016
•[ hack, malware, energy ]
A nuclear power plant in Germany is found to be infected with computer viruses, but they appear not to have posed a threat to the facility's operations because it is isolated from the Internet.
Goldcorp
April 26, 2016
•[ leak, energy ]
Hackers breach Goldcorp and leak a 14.8 GB torrent containing personal information.
Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL)
April 25, 2016
•[ ransomware, malware, energy ]
The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) announces last week a cyber-attack that partially shut down some of its services following what looks like an unconfirmed ransomware incident.
Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited
March 29, 2016
•[ hack, energy ]
As part of their #OpAfrica, the Anonymous deface (rickroll) the website of Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited.
