European Wind-Energy Sector Hit in Wave of Hacks
“Cyberattacks on three European wind-energy companies since the start of the war in Ukraine have raised alarm that hackers sympathetic to Russia are trying to cause mayhem in a sector set to benefit from efforts to lessen reliance on Russian oil and gas. The companies attacked haven’t publicly,” reports Katherine Stupp in The Wall Street Journal.
“Attributed the hacks to a particular criminal group or country and Russia has consistently denied that it launches cyberattacks. But the timing of the attacks suggests potential links to supporters of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, said Christoph Zipf, a spokesman for Wind Europe, a Brussels-based industry group. Serious cyberattacks on industrial.”
