US Nuclear Plant Cyber Attacked

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Federal authorities are investigating a breach into computer systems of at least one U.S. nuclear power plant, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. 

 One U.S. official called this an “ongoing matter” that is still being investigated. No public word has been given on who may be responsible, but authorities are looking at the possibility that a nation-state may be behind the hack.

Funny how these “Government Officials” are now never even named.    As if there would have to be some justification for remaining an anonymous source in a case like this?

I wonder how long before another annoymous official postulates that “Russia would have the capability of doing this”

Here is the story:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-nuclear-plants-computer-system-hacked/story?id=48314345
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stock here–In true conspiracy fashion, it is verified that radiation reporting stations can be hacked to provide false readings, no readings.   Another takeaway, there is no fix, its a basic problem with the systems.

“In this [Black Hat] talk, I’m going to try to explain how to reverse-engineer an entire radio protocol, from physical to application layer,” he says.
An attacker could wage a cyberattack on these devices as far away as 20 kilometers, he says. “You don’t need to be near the facility to attack it,” Santamarta says. And there are plenty of tools available for an attacker to jump onto the RF network. “The problem with radio is it’s difficult to mitigate” an attack via it, he says.
The weak RF protocols and firmware could allow an attacker to inject fake radiation readings, so that if there were a radiation accident or leak, it couldn’t be detected, for example. Or the reverse: it could send phony readings of high radiation levels when none were actually present, he says.

 http://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities—threats/nuclear-plants-hospitals-at-risk-of-hacked-radiation-monitoring-devices/d/d-id/1329200

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stock here—if memory served me correctly, and it did, I remembered a number of attacks just recently.

A German nuclear plant suffered a disruptive cyber attack, the news was publicly confirmed by the IAEA Director Yukiya Amano.

and here is another one were they achieved in placing malware on a non-internet connected computer network that controlled movement of spent fuel…

https://www.techworm.net/2016/10/nuclear-power-plant-hacked-hackers-tried-steal-ingredients-dirty-bombs.html

Gundremmingen officials said the IT system was not connected to the Internet and that the virus may have been carried into the network on a USB an employee used on his office or home computer, which would be the real source of the contamination.

The virus that was discovered in the system at the Gundremmingen nuclear plant was used to load and unload nuclear fuel from the power plant’s Block B and then transfer old fuel to the warehouse.

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And in South Korea, hackers got into the computer systems of a nuclear plant stole, note this “other internal information about the plant”.

The spin on the story is that is just focused on blueprints, which is bad enough, but pretended that it was the blueprints that were the most important thing, and that the hackers “threatened to release more blueprints.”

The cyber attack came into light after a hacker posted blueprints of nuclear reactors online and threatened further “leaks” unless authorities close down the reactors. According to the South Korean Yonhap News Agency, the hacker was able to access blueprints of reactors, floor maps and other internal information on the plant.