In this age of misinformation – almost all of it produced by the system to cover its tracks, what reports can be trusted? Still, if we acknowledge this uncertainty and proceed, there have been warnings made that hackers, or rather, advanced persistent threat actors, have now developed a malware toolkit known as “Pipedream,” to target industrial control systems like power grids and oil refineries. Ransomware attacks targeted Colonial Pipeline Inc. in the US mid-last year, and succeeded in shutting down production, leading to a fuel shortage. The intelligence organisations claim that these unidentified threat actors are moving away from attacking IT and to trying their hand at undermining operational systems. When the Ukraine War finally becomes a hot kinetic war between Russia and NATO, cyber-attacks will be common, and devastating upon populations who live in urban nests or beehives, with no self-reliance.
https://techhq.com/2022/04/us-fed-warns-of-state-hackers-targeting-industrial-control-systems/