The malware used against the petro-chemical plant was designed specifically to target the plant’s safety override for the Industrial Control System and resulted in 2 emergency shutdowns of the plant. We will continue to work together with our allies to turn the ratchet and starve Putin’s war machine of its funding and resources. We are sending a clear message to the Kremlin by sanctioning those who target people, businesses and infrastructure. It shows Putin is prepared to risk lives to sow division and confusion among allies. Russia’s targeting of critical national infrastructure is calculated and dangerous. Separately, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has used the UK’s cyber sanctions regime to designate a Russian defence ministry subsidiary, the Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (TsNIIKhM), for an incident involving safety override controls in a Saudi petro-chemicals plant in 2017. They have today been indicted by the FBI for targeting the systems controlling the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant in Kansas, US in 2017 but failed to have any negative impact.
The National Cyber security Centre (NCSC) assess it is almost certain that the FSB’s Centre 16 are also known by their hacker group pseudonyms of ‘Energetic Bear’, ‘Berserk Bear’ and ‘Crouching Yeti’, and conducted a malign programme of cyber activity, targeting critical IT systems and national infrastructure in Europe, the Americas and Asia. One month on since Putin’s unprovoked and illegal war in Ukraine started, the global scope of the FSB’s Centre 16 cyber campaign has been revealed. The UK, together with the US and other allies, has today (Thursday 24 March) exposed historic malign cyber activity of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) - the successor agency to the KGB.
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Long list of cyber operations includes UK energy sector, US aviation and a Russian dissident in the UK targeted using sophisticated hacking and spear-phishingįoreign Secretary Liz Truss sanctions a Russian MOD subsidiary for carrying out malicious cyber activity on a Saudi petro-chemical plant KGB’s successor agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB) is behind a historic global campaign targeting critical national infrastructure
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