Cyber-attack hits Utah wind and solar energy provider sPower

guest · Oct 31, 2019

Cyber-attack hits Utah wind and solar energy provider
First-of-its kind attack to hit a renewable energy provider
October 31, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/cyber-attack-hits-utah-wind-and-solar-energy-provider/

sPower, a Utah-based renewable energy provider, is in the unenvied posture of holding two unwanted titles.

First, the company is the first-ever US provider of solar and wind renewable energy to have been the victim of a cyber-attack.
Second, the company is the first US power grid operator that is known to have lost connection with its power generation installations as a result of a cyberattack.

According to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request the site filed with the Department of Energy (see a copy here, courtesy of Cyberscoop), on March 5, this year, an attacker used a vulnerability in a Cisco firewall to crash the device and break the connection between sPower's wind and solar power generation installations and the company's main command center.
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The attack also didn't appear to be targeted in nature. The documents reveal that the hacker didn't continue their attack nor did they breach sPower's network following the initial exploit that crashed the unpatched firewall.
sPower said it mitigated the intrusion by patching outdated devices. A sPower spokesperson was not immediately available for comment for additional details about the incident.
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