DTEX: SECURITY & PROTECTION FOR ELECTRIC UTILITIES info@dtexsystems.com I dtexsystems.com On December 23, 2015, a Ukrainian regional electricity distribution company reported service outages. The outages were caused by a coordinated cyber attack on more than 30 substations across three distribution entities affecting 225,000 customers. Ukrainian news media reported that a foreign attacker remotely controlled the SCADA distribution management system. The Ukrainian attack is the first publicly acknowledged incident to result in power outages. Delivery of Malware via Spearphishing A spear phishing attack was used to gain access to the business networks at the electric utility. Specifically: • A Word document with malicious macros was delivered via a phishing message. • The ma

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