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Russia forged new cyber weapons to attack Ukraine. Now they're going international - The Kyiv Independent
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NewsAPI | Mar 9, 2026 | Kollen Post
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A subsequent investigation by CERT-PL found that the attacker had also gotten into the systems of a major combined heat and power plant, where it had spent most of 2025 wiping firmware. The hackers used code and methodology largely descended from Sandworm, a hacker group operating under Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, that since a massive attack on the Ukrainian power grid back in 2016, has become one of the most infamous such groups in the world. The attack was related but different.
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