The foiled attack was the first in five years to use Sandworm's Industroyer malware, which is designed to automatically trigger power disruptions.
to interact directly with the station's circuit breakers and turn off the lights to a fraction of Ukraine's capital. That unprecedented specimen of industrial control system malware has never been seen again—until now: In the midst of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine, Sandworm appears to be pulling out its old tricks.
ESET and CERT-UA say the malware was planted on target systems within a regional Ukrainian energy firm on Friday. CERT-UA says that the attack was successfully detected in progress and stopped before any actual blackout could be triggered. But an earlier, private advisory from CERT-UA last week,today, stated that power had been temporarily switched off to nine electrical substations.
"The hack attempt did not affect the provision of electricity at the power company. It was promptly detected and mitigated," says Viktor Zhora, a senior official at Ukraine's cybersecurity agency, known as the State Services for Special Communication and Information Protection . “But the intended disruption was huge.
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