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Only Austria alerts his citizens: with Putin's hackers threatens the blackout

German Chancellor Scholz in US amid Ukraine-Russia tensions | DW News "If we end in a war, a real war, with a great power, then probably due to a cyber attack of great scope," said US President Joe Biden in July 2021. One month before, he had Russia's president Putin at a meeting In Geneva a list of 16 critical areas i n the hand pressed, which like its Russian cyber battalions please spare, among other things, the energy supply. Shortly before, Russian hackers had made an important fuel pipeline in the east of the USA. Some places the gasoline was scarce. Panic hamster purchases were the result.

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Putin leads to the long war against the West: In the summer, the Russian hacker group Revil committed a heavy cyber attack on the IT service provider Kaseya from the USA: particularly hard hit the Swedish supermarket chain Coop, which had to close 800 branches temporarily, because the IT system the cashier did not work anymore. In March, the hacker group "Ghostwriter" of the Russian military secrets "Gru" on German politicians and their IT infrastructure was part of: seven Bundestag and 31 member of parliaments were affected. Other GRU hackers named Fancy Bear should have spied out German banks in June.

Plumber in the Cyber ​​room so far only finger exercise for Putin's warriors

And Putin's hackers have been in Ukraine for years in Ukraine. The most devastating attack on Ukraine took place in the summer of 2017: The Russian attack "Notpetya" with a malware also cleared hard drives of German and international companies based in Ukraine. The total damage is estimated at nine billion euros. Recently, Putin's Cyber ​​troops chopped the websites of the Ukrainian government on January 13 and left a warning: "All information about you are released, have scared and expects the worst."

So far, the plone in the Cyber ​​room is only a fingering exercise for Putin's hybrid warfare. However, it will be serious if hackers take the country's critical infrastructure. For example, the power supply on which everything hangs in an industrial society. There was a taste of Europe at Christmas 2015: Russian hackers cut off parts of western Ukraine from the power supply. Affected from the blackout were 230,000 people.

Without electricity, there is no light, no internet and no telephone, no heating, no water pumps and thus no toilet rinsing, no warm food, no refrigerated chain for food, no radio and television, no trains and trams, no supermarket cashier, no lifts. In June 2020, the then President of the Federal Office for Population Protection and Disaster Relief, Christoph Unger, with a Blackout "warned in one, two days of chaos".

"Electricity is traditionally underestimated as the theme of geopolitics"

And not only in Ukraine: Our power grid is still vulnerable and is far beyond the boundaries of the EU. The composite network continental Europe spans in the east and in the south also countries of the European neighborhood. Large submarine cable connect Europe with Scandinavia, the British Islands and North Africa. And the bigger this network, the more vulnerable it is - as on January 8, 2021: Since the Croatian substations Ernestinovo was overloaded and fell out at point 14:04:25. In order to prevent a Europe-wide blackout, the network operators immediately separated the Southeastern European electricity grid from the rest of Europe. Or on July 24: Since the Iberian peninsula was cleaved from the rest of the continental network: trigger were forest fires and extinguishing work this time.

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