Pentagon Leaks Show Russian Hacktivists Claim to Have Targeted a Canadian Pipeline
The communications seem to show that Zarya had infiltrated an unnamed Canadian energy company and that the agent had given the hackers instructions about what to do with their access to the gas company’s network. In their chats, the hackers claim the frightening ability to remotely manipulate the unnamed energy project’s industrial controls—including a capacity to “increase valve pressure, disable alarms, and initiate an emergency shutdown of the facility.
Even more disturbingly, the FSB officer communicated to the hacker group that “a successful operation [against the facility] would cause an explosion” and that the FSB was “monitoring Canadian news reports for indications of an explosion,” cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter . The goal of this supposed operation was to cause a “loss of income for Canadians,” not a “loss of life,” the report states.Unfortunately, the available reporting does not state which specific company is said to have been targeted, merely referring to it as an “unspecified gas distribution station.”
It’s also unclear whether anything ever happened with this alleged hacking mission—or if the hackers ultimately managed to damage the company in question.The leaked intel report states that, if the claims of Zarya’s claims of an attack are accurate, “it would mark the first time” that U.S. intelligence has “observed a pro-Russia-hacking group execute a disruptive attack against Western industrial control systems.
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