Welcome to the Tech Meam Ride Home for Wednesday, April 13th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Ukrainian officials say they stopped an attack on an energy facility with the help of ESET and Microsoft.

While along the way identifying a new variant of the

industry lawyer malware, an infamous piece of malware that was used by the

Sandworm APT group in 2016 to cut off power in Ukraine.

Quoting the record.

CERT UA, the governmental computer emergency response team of Ukraine, said the attack

used Indestroyer to target several infrastructure elements including high voltage

electrical substations computers at the facility network equipment

and server equipment running Linux operating systems. It is known that the victim organization suffered two waves of attacks.

The initial compromise took place no later than February 2022, cert U.A. explained.

The disconnection of electrical substations and the decommissioning of the company's infrastructure was scheduled for Friday evening, April 8, 2022.

At the same time, the implementation of the malicious plan has so far been prevented, end quote. In an explainer on the situation,

he said,

it also saw the attackers use several other

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