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BlackEnergy infected also Ukrainian Mining and Railway Systems

Trend Micro found strains of BlackEnergy malware involved in recent attacks against Ukrainian Mining and Railway Systems. BlackEnergy was in the headlines when the security industry examined the power outage occurred in Ukraine in December 2015. TrendMicro spotted BlackEnergy and KillDisk samples on the systems of a Ukrainian mining company and a major railway operator. The researchers noticed many similarities between the samples, naming conventions, control infrastructure, and the timing of the attacks. They believe that the threat actors behind them is the same that targeted the Ukrainian power companies.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/44452/hacking/blackenergy-mining-and-railway-systems.html

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