U.S. infrastructure has already been penetrated, mapped for future cyber attacks

Special to WorldTribune.com

Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon

Critical U.S. infrastructures are being penetrated by foreign states in preparation for devastating future cyber attacks designed to cripple electrical power, communications and financial networks, the commander of the U.S. Cyber Command told Congress on Thursday.

Adm. Mike Rogers. / AP
Adm. Mike Rogers. / AP

Adm. Mike Rogers, Cybercom chief and director of the National Security Agency, said foreign states have broken into the networks that control industrial systems for a range of what the U.S. government considers 16 critical infrastructures, ranging from electrical power, water, telecommunications and financial systems.

“We have seen instances where we’re observing intrusions into industrial control systems,” Rogers told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. … “We clearly are seeing instances where nation-states, groups and individuals are aggressively looking at acquiring that capability,” Rogers said. …

The DHS Industrial Control System-Cyber Emergency Response Team stated in a notice to the private sector that it has uncovered “a sophisticated malware campaign that has compromised numerous industrial control systems environments using a variant of the BlackEnergy malware.” BlackEnergy is a software that security researchers say has been used by Russian government cyber attackers.

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