Russia forged new cyber weapons to attack Ukraine. Now they’re going international

At the end of December, the person manning the digital boards at PSE, Poland’s national electricity operator, noticed a flurry of solar stations suddenly flicker off grid.

Poland in the dead of winter can be a gloomy place. But the grid wasn’t seeing a drop-off in generation in line with the recent solstice. These were full disconnections, synchronized, at a time when the grid needed the power..

“They thought it was just a malfunction of the device because the plant was still producing power, they just couldn’t get the remote connection,” Marcin Dudek, head of CERT Polska, Poland’s national cybersecurity authority, told the Kyiv Independent. “But we got the information that something was happening from the operator, who’s monitoring all the plants.”

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