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As the local operator attempted to regain control of the supervision interface, he was logged off and could not log in again because the password had been changed. Europe. But the attack was too fast to allow any reaction; indeed, in a critical infrastructure environment, operator actions may cause safety issues. [91] Paganini, Pierluigi. Before the attacks on the Ukrainian power grid, there were two major suspected cases of Russian hybrid warfare against its former territory: the 2007 Cyberattacks on Estonia and the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. Security Affairs. The methods Russia uses to manipulate Ukraine’s vulnerable developing economy has proven to be very effective. But the widest-reaching attack — and the world’s most financially damaging to date — took place in 2017, when hackers combined code tested in the power grid attacks with malware known as “Petya” and a security vulnerability initially discovered by … This analysis was performed on all SRs, and two situations were identified: For instance, we can consider "backup" missing, because disks could not be restored several weeks after the attack. World news. a firewall with strict data flow restriction was in place. Everything we know about Ukraine’s power plant hack. The New York Times. Three power distribution companies sustained a cyberattack in western Ukraine on 23 December 2015. Each SR may be reinforced by one or more requirement enhancements (REs) that are selected based on the targeted security levels (SL-Ts). In this context, Russian hybrid warfare strategy has been an optimal means to achieve this desire, while also receiving relatively low pushback from the international community. The lack of IT network supervision did allow extensive network scans, vulnerability searches, and discovery of the allowed SSH link. “Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid” March 18 2016. [60] Additionally, the successful anti-governmental revolutions in Ukraine demonstrated collective resistance against Russian-leaning policies, and rampant corruption in the public sector of Ukraine. [20] Delivered in attachments to spearphishing emails, it creates a backdoor in systems giving the Sandworm Team an entry point to steal information and work through further reaches of a network. https://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-attack-ukraine/, https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/06/12/industroyer-biggest-threat-industrial-control-systems-since-stuxnet/, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/17/topstories3.russia, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/technology/13cyber.html, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-cyber-idUSKBN15U2CN. January 7, 2016. https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2016/01/ukraine-and-sandworm-team.html, [13] FireEye. The only original piece of malware code developed was the one needed to cancel out the gateways as part of step three. The attacker remotely took control of the operator's HMI mouse to switch off breakers. https://www.boozallen.com/content/dam/boozallen/documents/2016/09/ukraine-report-when-the-lights-went-out.pdf. At first, looking at the reports about the various Ukrainian operator security controls, it looked like they had paid significant attention to cybersecurity issues. Accessed July 2, 2017.  http://news.finance.ua/ru/news/-/371208/slantsevyj-gaz-v-ukraine-dobycha-ne-v-blizhajshej-perspektive, [84] Davies, Gareth. Russia’s silent shale gas victory in Ukraine. ISA/IEC 62443-3-3 lists 51 system requirements (SRs) structured in seven foundational requirements (FRs). “Before the Gunfire, Cyberattacks.” The New York Times, August 12, 2008, sec. At midnight, a week before last Christmas, hackers struck an electric transmission station north of the city of Kiev, blacking out a portion of the Ukrainian … Power grids have been disrupted in the past few years by malware, with the most recent cases from the Ukraine . This was exactly the situation in the Ukrainian case. November 30, 2014. This step was obviously aimed at switching off the power for hundreds of thousands of western Ukrainian subscribers connected to the grid. March 23, 2017. Country Comparison: Natural Gas Consumption. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/technology/13cyber.html; Zinets, Natalia. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/world/europe/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-hacking.html. [25] E-ISAC, SANS ICS. [35] Monaghan, Andrew. May 4, 2011. [2] Volz, Dustin and Finkle, Jim. Both have been found in the networks of other companies that use industrial processes, including a Ukrainian mining company and state owned railway operator. Distributed energy resources and microgrids that can function either through an interconnection with the grid or as a standalone system increase the resiliency and security of supply and could improve public access to power during a cyber-attack or other emergency. “Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid.” [90] * Stuxnet was attributed to the United States and Israel, Ukrainian power grid hack was attributed to Russia. Sandworm Team developed new malware before taking down the transmission substation on December 17, 2016. An exploit is a bit of software designed and developed to exploit a specific vulnerability. In both 2015 and 2016, the Ukrainian energy grid was hacked. Within hybrid warfare, Golling and Stelte define “cyber operations” as: The unauthorized conducting of a penetration by, on behalf of, or in support of, a government into another state’s computer or network, or any other activity affecting a computer system, which the purpose is to add, alter, falsify or delete date, or cause the disruption of or damage to a computer or network, or the objects a computer system controls, such as SCADA-system.[37]. “Russia’s Approach to Cyber Warfare.” Center for Naval Analyses Arlington United States, March 2017. pp. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2081.html, [5] Schmitt, Michael N., and Vihul, Liis. [17] Espionage and sabotage operations cannot be monetized on black markets in the same way as credit card or bank account numbers can be, making them more difficult to track and attribute. Ehud Shamir, CISO at security company SentinelOne (which has analysed Black Energy 3), takes up the story. [78], Therefore, the annexation of Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and the subsequent Russian military intervention in the Eastern Ukraine was not just a decision to keep Russia’s Black Sea Naval fleet stationed in Sevastopol and a demonstration of Russian power in the region overall. Figure 1. Our analysis of the cyberattack is threefold: In spring 2015, a variant of the BlackEnergy malware was triggered as an employee of Prykarpattya Oblenergo opened the Excel attachment of an email. January 11, 2009. 214 (January 2005): 1–8. Helping Ukraine Investigate Power Grid Hack.” January 12, 2016. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-cybersecurity-usa/u-s-helping-ukraine-investigate-power-grid-hack-idUSKCN0UQ24020160112. Two days before Christmas that year, Russian hackers planted a unique specimen of malware in the network of Ukraine's national grid operator, Ukrenergo. [2] Russian hackers have a long history of participating in political and military conflicts in Eastern Europe and consistently carry out espionage operations around the world in support of Russian interests. Getty Images. Russia’s military operation on the ground solved the prospects of Ukrainian energy competition problem for Russia, albeit partially. These appear to be exploratory elements of a campaign that was as much about learning as causing a single blackout.[29]. Two cyber security firms have concluded that a malware platform was behind the attack. Additional devices were connected to the network too (e.g., engineering workstations and historian servers) but are not relevant for the attack kinematics. [3], These attacks represent a growing category of hacks intended to sabotage critical infrastructure. “U.S. “Russian ‘Sandworm’ Hack Has Been Spying on Foreign Governments for Years.” WIRED. In February 2016, U.S. Deputy Energy Secretary Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall attributed the first attack on the Ukrainian grid to Russia at a meeting with U.S. energy industry executives. October 14, 2014. https://www.wired.com/2014/10/russian-sandworm-hack-isight/, [19] Wilhoit, Kyle and Gogolinsk, Jim. “Analysis of the Cyber Attack on the Ukrainian Power Grid” March 18 2016. p4. We can see that the SL-As are zero except for: Table 4 shows a detailed analysis for some of the most significant SRs. Out of the 51 SRs, four were deemed "not applicable" (1.6, 1.8, 1.9, and 2.2), and 25 could not be determined ("?"). The overall estimated SLs are regrouped in table 3. Ukraine’s crisis is ultimately a part of a larger system of events in the East-European region. In particular, post-Soviet countries serve as a testing ground for new kinds of cyber operations. They struck the “Prykarpattyaoblenergo” power distribution center and switched off 30 substations ― seven 110kv substation and 23 35kv substation; hackers also attacked two other power grid companies leaving more than 230,000 residents in the dark for one to six hours. The company’s computer and SCADA systems were attacked, disconnecting 30 … U.S. Energy Information Administration. Accessed July 19, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/world/russian-money-suspected-behind-fracking-protests.html?mcubz=1&_r=0, [88] Batkov, Szilvia. In the event of an unforecasted operational situation, they are not trained to make decisions on the spot. [30] Industroyer is significantly more advanced than BlackEnergy3; it is tailor made for manipulating industrial control systems. [59] While Russia is concerned about Ukraine turning to the West, it is also concerned with Ukraine’s moves to end its dependence on Russian energy sources. Taking control of the facilities’ SCADA systems, malicious actors opened breakers at some 30 distribution substations in the capital city Kiev and western Ivano-Frankivsk region, causing more than 200,000 consumers to lose power. http://www.nerc.com/pa/CI/ESISAC/Documents/E-ISAC_SANS_Ukraine_DUC_18Mar2016.pdf, [22] Wilhoit, Kyle. “Ukraine Sees Russian Hand in Cyber Attacks on Power Grid.” http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-cybersecurity/ukraine-sees-russian-hand-in-cyber-attacks-on-power-grid-idUSKCN0VL18E, [12] Hultquist, John. The anti-governmental protests in Ukraine presented a direct threat to Putin’s regime in Russia in the context of spreading of “color revolutions” in the region at the time. Official Blames Russia for Power Grid Attack in Ukraine.” CNN. BlackEnergy is a malware "suite" that first hit the news in 2014, when it was used extensively to infiltrate energy utilities. Accessed July 10, 2017.  https://www.voanews.com/a/putin-nato-film-stone-russia-crimea-ukraine/3605862.html, [60] Clover, Charles, White Snow, Black Wind: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism, New Haven, CT; Yale University Press, 2016, [61] Menon, Rajan and Rumer, Boris, Conflict in Ukraine: the Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order, Boston, MA: MIT Press, 2015, [62] Stent, Angela R., The Limits of Partnership: US-Russia Relations in the 21st Century, Princeton University Press, 2014, [63] Korsunskaya, Darya. We may not have direct evidence that the SR was met or missed, but deduction based on typical similar installations and other inputs allows a reasonable speculation about whether the requirement was met or missed. [71] Thus, Ukraine’s prospects for becoming the energy center in Europe are feasible. [11] It is the first known successful cyberattack on a power grid. During several months in the summer of 2015, the BlackEnergy malware was remotely controlled to collect data, hop from one host to another, detect vulnerabilities, and even make its way onto the OT network and perform similar "reconnaissance" activities. Accessed May 30, 2017.https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/worldshalegas/, [72] The State of Ukraine’s Energy Sector. Nevertheless, prior analysis of BlackEnergy, as well as reasonable considerations about the standard process used for cyberattacks, makes the following reconstitution probable with reasonable confidence. [43] Johnson, Chalmers. [19] However, BlackEnergy3 is more general and modular because of its diverse plugins. A December 2015 attack that caused 225,000 Ukrainians to lose electricity was the first known instance of someone using malware to generate a real-world power outage. The table 1 matrix is directly extracted from the IEC 62443-3-3 appendix that summarizes the requirements. it is not possible to evaluate whether or not the requirement was met: The SR may not be applicable (e.g., requirements about wireless communication in the absence of such media). Last December, a cyber attack on Ukrainian Electric power grid caused the power outage in the northern part of Kiev — the country's capital — and surrounding areas, causing a blackout for tens of thousands of citizens for … [61] Such pro-Western moods in Ukraine are alarming to the Kremlin because they undermine Russia’s hegemony in the region and, ultimately, its desire to be the counterbalancing influential power to the United States on the global arena.[62]. 109-110 & 118; Foxall, Andrew. Several sources were used for this purpose that, overall, provide unusually detailed information. DailyMail. The document seems intended to suggest that Russia does not pursue offensive cyber activities, as it does not discuss any hybrid warfare activities. Ukraine joining NATO would be trigger for war with Russia. U.S. Energy Information Administration. Table 2 illustrates the same FR5 evaluation using this mode of presentation. “KillDisk and BlackEnergy Are Not Just Energy Sector Threats.” TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog, February 16, 2016. http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/killdisk-and-blackenergy-are-not-just-energy-sector-threats/, [23] E-ISAC, SANS ICS. 6 (June 1968): 435–47. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-cybersecurity/ukraine-sees-russian-hand-in-cyber-attacks-on-power-grid-idUSKCN0VL18E. News.com.ua. Russia’s Gazprom Doubling Down on ‘Anti-Ukraine’ Baltic Pipeline. Additional "bonus" activities included performing a distributed denial-of-service attack on the call center, preventing customers from contacting the distributor, and switching off the uninterruptible power supply to shut down the power on the control center itself (figure 4). https://jsis.washington.edu/news/north-korea-cyber-attacks-new-asymmetrical-military-strategy/. It all began when its Prykarpattyaoblenergo control center was the victim of a cyber intrusion on December 23, 2015. Accessed May 30, 2017. https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/opinion/russia-s-silent-shale-gas-victory-in-ukraine/, [79] Treisman, Daniel. Kyiv Post. In Georgia, the cyber operations were well coordinated with Russian conventional military movements, stopping the Georgian government from effectively responding to Russian physical maneuvers. “Ukraine Charges Russia with New Cyber Attacks on Infrastructure.” Reuters, February 15, 2017. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-cyber-idUSKBN15U2CN; Higgins, Andrew. Accessed July 12, 2017. https://www.eia.gov/beta/international/analysis_includes/countries_long/Russia/russia.pdf, [74] Mazneva, Elena and Anna Shiryaevskaya. Accessed May 30, 2017.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/16/russia-cuts-off-gas-supply-ukraine, [70] Analysis and Projections. Keeping this time frame in mind is essential for a proper understanding of the ways and means that should be used to detect, and eventually prevent, a similar attack. “Ukraine Charges Russia with New Cyber Attacks on Infrastructure.” Reuters, February 15, 2017. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-cyber-idUSKBN15U2CN, [16] Dragos Inc. “CRASHOVERRIDE Analysis of the Threat to Electric Grid Operations,” June 13, 2017. https://dragos.com/blog/crashoverride/CrashOverride-01.pdf, [17] FireEye ““Cyber Attacks on the Ukrainian Grid: What You Should Know.” https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/global/en/solutions/pdfs/fe-cyber-attacks-ukrainian-grid.pdf, [18] Zetter, Kim. [14] In February 2017, Ukrainian officials made their attribution, blaming Russian security services and the group behind the BlackEnergy malware. Accessed May 29, 2017. http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/33448/cyber-warfare-2/cyber-warfare-balance-of-power.html. With the presidential elections around the corner, Russia possibly will intensify its hybrid warfare operations in the region, especially if Russia’s internal affairs follows current unstable trajectory. Technology. In addition, the Kharkiv region (second half of the shale bloc) has been subject to destabilizing activities. [58] Fitton, Oliver. “U.S. The statements made and views expressed are solely the responsibility of the author. Russian hackers have launched multiple cyber attacks in the past year on power grids in Ukraine. November 5, 2013. This latest attack to the Ukrainian power grid in December of 2016 was different though. p. 66. The number of cyberattacks are on the rise and the most sophisticated among them have been attributed to nation-state actors. Prior to the annexation of Crimea, vast deposits of shale oil and gas were discovered in the Black Sea basin off the Crimean shelf, in the Eastern Ukraine’s Yuzivska shale block (Donbas), and Western Ukraine’s Olesska shale block. As for the Prykarpattya Oblenergo case and for each requirement (basic or RE), we have identified three possible cases: Table 1. [37] Golling, Mario and Bjorn Stelte. November 21, 2016. The central reason for Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine in 2014 hinges on Ukrainians’ desire to turn to the West – a move that is incompatible with Russia’s national interests. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-cybersecurity-usa/u-s-helping-ukraine-investigate-power-grid-hack-idUSKCN0UQ24020160112. [50] Lesk, Michael. Technology. However, along with the conventional street protests, distributed denial-of service (DDOS) attacks, website defacements, DNS server attacks, mass email, and comment spam also targeted Estonia for three weeks. Eventually, a more synthesized view was used without the RE text in order to present the overall picture for all FRs, which would span several pages otherwise. [1] Nearly a year later, on December 17, 2016, a single transmission substation in northern Kiev lost power. 4 (n.d.): 65–74; Zetter, Kim. NATO Review magazine. [27], In addition to opening breakers at substations, the Sandworm Team explored methods to extend the blackouts. [15] Private security company Dragos has also attributed the attack to the Sandworm Team, which used a new malware named Industroyer (aka CrashOverride). While the strategy represented in cyberattacks on Estonia in 2007 and Georgia in 2008 confused citizens of both countries, Moscow enjoyed the plausible deniability for its actions that often originates from hybrid warfare cyber operations. The OT network included a distribution management system (DMS) supervisory control and data acquisition with servers and workstations and a set of gateways used to send orders from the DMS to remote terminal units that controlled the breakers and other equipment in the electrical substations. The Henry M. Jackson School is a proud member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. Georgia was the first manifestation of a hybrid war strategy that drew on cyber warfare tactics. Forbes. The whole attack only lasted for a couple of minutes. How and entire nation became Russia’s Test Lab for cyberwar. Pg 9-10. P7. By Patrice Bock, with the participation of Jean-Pierre Hauet, Romain Françoise, and Robert Foley. The attack ultimately left 230,000 residents without power … The hacker would not have gone through the burden of capturing the password if more direct ways to reach the OT network existed. “When the Lights Went Out,” 2016. [77] However, both Shell and Chevron froze their shale-developing activities when Ukraine plunged into military conflict with Russia, because the conflict was undermining the security of their investments. March 1, 2017. 2 & 12-13. Its aim was to gather intelligence about the infrastructure and networks and to help prepare for future cyberattacks. We want to hear from you! [32] Herzog, Stephen. “Cyber Operations and Gray Zones: Challenges for NATO.” Connections: The Quarterly Journal 15, no. [53] That region, although recognized by most of the international community as Georgian, had been under de facto control by pro-Russian separatists, stemming from conflicts between 1992 and 1993. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/world/europe/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-hacking.html. At other control centers, supporting equipment was tampered with to slow recovery operations. Prosecutors said the group of hackers, who work for the Russian GRU, are behind the "most disruptive … [38] “The Military Balance 2017: Chapter 5. 3 (June 2007): 496–524. Putin’s Russia Seen Dominating European Gas for Two Decades. When the local operator attempted to regain control of the supervision interface, he was logged off and could not log in again, because the password had been changed (figure 3). http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/17/topstories3.russia; Markoff, John. June 12, 2017 Swati Khandelwal. [27] E-ISAC, SANS ICS. “Stateless Attribution Toward International Accountability in Cyberspace” 2017. Second, the attacks were meant to demonstrate the offensive capabilities of Russian hackers and allowed Russian to prove its effectiveness on a country that cannot retaliate in kind. To comply with this requirement means that traffic between zones on the OT network should be filtered. [42] In the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong defeated the U.S. supported Kuomintang, by applying an upgraded asymmetric guerilla warfare strategy to his forces. Do not aim for SL-T=2 or 3 on some FRs if the SL-A is still zero on other FRs, as this would likely be useless. p. 76. The pattern in Ukraine could be a foreshadowing of the future for all states. How Technology backfires. Such strategies allow actors to overcome the weaknesses that would lead to defeat in an all-out war. Once connections to both the Internet and to the OT network are allowed\, detecting signs of cyberattacks is difficult because of the volume of traffic. Voice of America. The discovery of shale deposits has prompted Russian attempts to stall their developments and sabotage much needed business deals for Ukraine’s foreign capital thirsty economy. And this really was not a significant "effort," as gateways have for a long time been pointed out as vulnerable devices. 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