Cyber-Kinetic
Cyber-Kinetic Incidents Timeline
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Targeted Attack – “WannaCry” Ransomware Attacks
More than 75,000 hospitals, government agencies and businesses as large as Fedex and PetroChina in 99 countries found their systems locked and encrypted in a massive ransomware attack.
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Targeted Attack – Unauthorized Activation of Dallas, Texas, Emergency Sirens
Emergency sirens sounded for more than 90 minutes in the middle of the night and system personnel had to shut down the entire system to stop them.
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Targeted Attack – St. Louis, Missouri, Library System Ransomware Attack
Ransomware attack shut down St. Louis library system for two weeks while technicians rebuilt the computer system from scratch.
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Targeted Attack – Alpine Ski Resort Ransomware Attack
Ransomware attack locks guests out of rooms and prevents the resort from creating new room keys.
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Targeted Attack – Lappeenranta, Finland, Smart Building Attack
A DDoS attack shut down heat and hot water in two apartment buildings in Finland in the middle of Finnish winter.
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Targeted Attack – San Francisco Transportation System Ransomware Attack
Ransomware attack on municipal transportation system was quickly defeated, but evidence found in connection with the attack suggests that the perpetrator had successfully obtained ransom from a number of industrial victims.
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Targeted Attack – Unidentified Water Distribution Facility Attack
A hacktivist group with ties to Syria gained control of critical systems of the facility, which has not been identified for security reasons. Had the hackers known how to use the system they had compromised, they could have inflicted mass…
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Targeted Attack – Ransomware Attacks on Hospitals
At least 70 hospitals throughout UK and US suffered ransomware attacks in 2016. This number would grow by orders of magnitude in 2017.
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Targeted Attack – “BlackEnergy” Ukrainian Power Grid Attacks
Russian government-sponsored hackers are believed to have disrupted Ukrainian power grids, leaving more than 80,000 people without power.
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Targeted Attack – German Steel Mill Attack
Hackers inflicted massive damage on an unidentified German steel mill by disabling shutdown safeguards and operating equipment beyond their breaking points.
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Targeted Attack – Unidentified Nuclear Power Plant
A top official of the International Atomic Energy Agency admitted that an unnamed nuclear power plant had suffered a cyber-kinetic attack sometime between 2013 and 2016, but had managed to defeat the attack without requiring a facility shutdown.
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Targeted Attack – Houston, Texas, Water Distribution System Hack
A Romanian hacker shows evidence that he had easily breached the distribution facility. Fortunately, his motivation was only to embarrass officials who had publicly downplayed the seriousness of the Springfield water utility malfunction.
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Malfunction – Marshall, Michigan, Crude Oil Spill
Multiple system malfunctions slowed response to the spill, leading to a discharge of 819,000 gallons of crude oil into the Kalamazoo River.
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Malfunction – San Bruno Gas Pipeline Explosion
Erroneous readings led to a pressure overload that caused a rupture that killed eight, injured 60 and destroyed 37 homes.
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Targeted Attack – Stuxnet Attack on Iranian Nuclear Power Facility
A worm allegedly created by U.S. CIA and Israeli government targeting Iranian uranium enrichment devices destroyed as many as 10% of the illegally obtained and operated uranium enrichment centrifuges at an Iranian nuclear facility.
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