CIA analyst Tom Donahue disclosed the recently declassified attacks while offering few specifics on what actually went wrong. The goal of the attacks was extortion, he said, without identifying the countries affected. “We have information, from multiple regions outside the United States, of cyber intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands,” he said. The U.S. is taking steps to lock down the computers that manage its power systems, however, however. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved on Thursday.”]
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