About a quarter of roughly 1,500 electric utilities sharing data with the North American power grid regulator said they installed the malicious SolarWinds software used by suspected Russian hackers. The electric utilities did not report any significant follow-on activity from the hackers, but the broad exposure of the sector points to the challenges of protecting utilities from supply-chain breaches. NERC is a not-for-profit regulatory authority backed by the U.S. and Canadian governments. The issue posed a potential threat to parts of the power sector, NERC said in December.”]
Source: https://www.cyberscoop.com/nerc-solarwinds-backdoor-electric-sector/