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Posted: February 14th, 2016

By Kurt Baumgartner

Kurt Baumgartner joined Kaspersky Lab in 2010 and is responsible for monitoring the threat landscape across the Americas and enhancing Kaspersky Lab technologies and solutions. He is a regular blog contributor and frequently presents on malware issues at international conferences and speaks to interested media.

Industrial control systems (ICS) underly many aspects of our critical infrastructure, and there are concerns that they are becoming more vulnerable to hackers. The Cipher Brief has covered the threats to these systems, but recently there have been reports that Russia-affiliated hackers were able to cause power outages in Ukraine by attacking their ICS. We spoke with Kurt Baumgartner from Kaspersky Lab, a cybersecurity company, to find out more about the BlackEnergy malware used in the cyber-attack in Ukraine. According to him, the problem isn’t the malware, it’s the hackers who keep upgrading it to make it more effective.

The Cipher Brief: A malware program called BlackEnergy has been in the news recently in connection with cyber attacks in the Ukraine. What is BlackEnergy, and what does it do?

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