Feds warn about cyber attacks on energy, industrial firms
Source: The Hill
The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint statement on Friday warning of an increased danger posed to infrastructure sectors by a malicious "multi-stage intrusion campaign," which the agencies warned had successfully compromised several of their security networks.
The analysis points to cyber attack campaigns going on since at least May of 2017 that the agencies said has been targeting the aviation, energy, and nuclear industries.
The agencies did not name any specific networks that had been compromised by the attacks.
Hackers reportedly used emails and malicious websites in a phishing campaign to obtain the credentials necessary to access and sabotage the networks.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/356540-feds-warn-about-cyber-attacks-on-energy-industrial-firms
The final paragraph explains that these attacks are "an escalation of initial threats identified by the agencies in an earlier report provided to Reuters in June, which identified a narrower set of nefarious activity targeting energy, nuclear and manufacturing sectors."