Russian Hackers Threatened Many Power Companies

The whole world has been threatened but currently the Power industry is more threatened by the hacker then world because the Power agencies have threatened by the Russian Hackers. There are many power companies in the United States and in Europe may be about to face power gone because a Russian Hacker group called “Energetic Bear” have attacked on these companies. This group has also known as Dragonfly is capable enough to disrupt any corporation because they have proper resources and size, suggested by the security company Symantec Corp.

They had posted that group is aiming to disrupt the main line of grid operators, petroleum operators, electricity generators and other important firms responsible for lighting up half of the world. The group is very active on web and becoming one of the largest attackers in the world. They are angry on govt. to use them for political strategies and there are many countries have been targeted including Spain, Serbia, Greece, Romania, Poland Turkey, Germany Italy and France.

“The group has a “nexus to the Russian Federation,” according to report published in January by Irvine, California-based CrowdStrike, which focuses on identifying web “adversaries.” The hackers also targeted academics globally, European governments, defense contractors and U.S. health-care providers, it said. Helsinki-based security firm F-Secure Oyj noticed the group’s focus shifting to industrial control systems earlier this year.” Lately Been Published on Site

There are Privacy Advocate trying to research on the matter for better knowledge, but it is still blur that the Govt. is involved or group is trying to sell to a government. In the most time the Hacker group is help full to common people as they have threaded the Brazilian Govt and FIFA to stop the huge money spending in the event on the other hand the people are starving.