When the organization that oversees Europe’s electricity market announced on Monday that hackers had infiltrated its IT network, it didn’t provide many details. The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) said a data breach had been confined to its office network, and that no critical power systems were affected. It didn’t mention how or why the intrusion began. But a public analysis of a cybersecurity incident, which multiple people familiar with the matter said matches the details of the ENTSO-E breach, indicates that the attackers were communicating with the victim organization’s email server for more than a month. There was repeated, high-volume communication between the server and the hackers’ malware, according to the analysis, which was published in January by threat intelligence firm Recorded Future. The report did not name ENTSO-E as the victim, but a source close to senior cybersecurity officials at multiple European electric utilities said the two incidents […]
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