Alert DHS and FBI: Hackers Targeting U.S. Nuclear Power Plants for Cyber Attacks! (video)

According to the DHS and FBI, professional hackers have been targeting computer systems of multiple Nuclear power plants since May of this year in an attempt to gather information that would then be used in later Cyber attacks!

Hackers have for weeks been targeting computer systems associated with U.S. nuclear facilities and power plants in a bid to glean information to use in subsequent cyberattacks, according to U.S. authorities.

The attempted penetrations began in May and were highlighted in an urgent, joint report issued by the Department of Homeland Security and FBI last week, The New York Times and Bloomberg reported Thursday after reviewing the warning.

At least a dozen U.S. power plants were successfully breached to some degree, Bloomberg reported, including Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corp. in Kansas.

In some instances, perpetrators attempted to breach targeted systems by sending attractive but malicious emails to senior industrial control engineers containing Microsoft Word attachments embedded with malware, the report said. Other times the hackers compromised legitimate websites visited by their targets or attempted to route their potential victims’ internet traffic through their own machines, The Times reported.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/7/dhs-and-fbi-warn-of-hackers-targeting-us-nuclear-p/

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