Simulated cyberattack takes down nationwide gas, water, electrical grids as FBI, DHS, Nat’l Guard test responses
June 24, 2021 Ryan Morgan
In a training exercise last week, members of New England area National Guard cyber units and federal agencies simulated a cyberattack scenario in which hacks took down power, water and gas companies starting on the west coast of the United States and continuing east across the country before threatening the East Coast and New England’s critical infrastructure.
Over the course of the two-week-long scenario, known as the annual Cyber Yankee exercise, National Guard units worked with interagency partners from the FBI, the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), theFederal Energy Regulatory Commission and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM), to simulate the complex cyber attack. This latest Cyber Yankee exercise, the seventh of its kind, taught participants to watch for anomalous activity on networks that could indicate cyber intruders and to then counteract those potential cyberattacks targeting civilian infrastructure.
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