The hacker attacked the industrial network, and this terrible nightmare finally rushed to reality. Many countries are subversive and fearful. The first thing they have to figure out is: How did such an attack succeed?
In the winter of 2015, the western part of Ukraine suddenly fell into darkness, and half of the population in a state lost its power supply. Since the outbreak of local conflicts, power outages have been the most common form of entertainment for the Ukrainian people, but this time it is different: the ghostly hackers sneaked into the power supply system and cut off the grid thousands of miles away.
An excel-induced bloody case
The US network intelligence company iSight Partners first got a sample of the attack program and spread it from various channels. When Wang Dejin got the sample, it was ten days after the incident. Wang Dejin is an industrial safety expert. The security company knows the members of 404 Labs of Chuangyu. He explained the mystery of this attack tool for Lei Feng.
The culprit that caused a million people to lose power is a very ordinary excel file. However, once you open it, you will release the devil from the bottle. It will silently release a downloader, the front desk is calm, and the backstage is running underneath - downloading a murderous attack program at full speed.
[Excel attack file screenshot prompt "created by the new version of Office, you need to load macros to view"]
This attack program is the notorious "dark energy" - a weapon tailored to destroy industrial control systems. There is evidence that Russians have used this tool to attack NATO, Poland and Ukraine.
Wang Dejin found that in order to escape the killing, someone compiled the latest variants in the past month or more before the attack. This version of "Dark Energy" incorporates dozens of powerful Trojans and viruses, including Killdisk, a virus that removes all data and boot information from your computer.
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