
The Redfly intrusion didn't result in any disruption, Symantec said, but it's not the only unwanted probing of critical national infrastructure (CNI) that's happened recently.įive Eyes security agencies warned in May of Chinese crews perpetuating living-off-the-land attacks to gain persistent access to critical infrastructure systems in the US – similar to what Redfly did in the grid of its unnamed Asian target. Department of Energy (DOE) today launched the Building a Better Grid Initiative to catalyze the nationwide development of new and upgraded high-capacity electric transmission lines, as enabled by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Whoever it is, the infrastructure attacks are just beginning But replacing the 2,750 terawatt-hours of electricity per year being. Redfly – if it's the same team that went after India earlier – appears to be focused on such state-level attacks, forgoing more lucrative commercial targets in favor of those with high intelligence value. Joe Biden's energy plan calls for an overhaul of the electric grid so that it runs solely on clean electricity by 2035. "It's possible they're the same actor," O'Brien told The Register, but " and the C2 overlap … is the extent of the link at the moment." A May 12, 2021, Biden executive order, requiring major power system cybersecurity actions, implicitly acknowledged that Russia’s 2015 attack on Ukraine’s power system can happen here. The United States of America has tendered to China a written agreement which grants to the People's Republic of China, an option to exercise Eminent Domain within the USA, as collateral for China.

(Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) The deal was years in the. While not drawing conclusions, Symantec Threat Hunter Team principal intelligence analyst Dick O'Brien told us the same infrastructure was definitely used. Hunter Biden, center, walks to Marine One on the Ellipse outside the White House on May 22, 2021.
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Once in place, it unloaded additional tools including a keylogger and something that decrypted payloads of encrypted code to run.

In this intrusion, ShadowPad masqueraded as VMware program files and directories to hide itself.
