U.S. Ramps Up Online Attacks on Russian Power Grid, NYT Says
- Aggressive staging of malware described as warning to Putin
- U.S. has probed Russian electric grid since at least 2012
Vapor escapes from chimneys at a power plant in Rodniki Industrial Park, Russia.
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The U.S. is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir Putin, the New York Times reported, citing current and former government officials.
While the U.S. has probed the Russian grid since at least 2012 and there’s no evidence it has turned off power, the Trump administration’s strategy has shifted more toward offense with the deployment of U.S. computer code inside the grid and other targets, the newspaper said. The effort has gotten far more aggressive over the past year, the Times quoted an unidentified senior intelligence official as saying.