Cyble Research & Intelligence Labs (CRIL) has been observing and reporting about parallel cyber hostilities extending among various nations since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in February 2022.
Apparently, Threat Actors (TAs), Hacktivist Groups, and Malicious attackers too have leveraged this war to widen their attack surface, targeting the Critical Infrastructure (CI) Sector and leaking sensitive documents, Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of employees and clients in various underground forums.
Cyble observed several cyberattacks on the CI sector has been due to organizations involved in the value chain of this ecosystem and emerging vulnerabilities.
Amalgamated in CI Sector, Nuclear Industries are strategic to energy sufficiency and nuclear deterrence in the growing concerns of Energy and National Security. CRIL is observing a rise in cybercrime activities targeting Nuclear Industry across the world.
Over the years, similar cyberattacks on Nuclear Facilities have been observed. For instance, the Dtrack attack on the Indian Nuclear facility in 2019, the Monju Nuclear Plant of Japan in 2014, and the Stuxnet attack on the Iran Nuclear Plant in 2010.
These attacks indicate that cyber threats to personnel engaged with nuclear facilities, organizations involved in the supply chain of nuclear materials, and attacks on assets of nuclear facilities such as workstations, Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), are getting more sophisticated with each passing day.
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