As I wrote this past February, one of the major undercurrents of the latest edition of the Tallinn Manual was the transition of warfare in the cyber realm from largely military and governmental targets towards a growing focus on the civilian world, literally bringing the new era of warfare into our living rooms. Last week new information emerged from a postmortem by security firms ESET and Dragos Inc of a cyberattack against Ukraine’s electrical grid this past December, finding that it was caused by a highly specialized and custom-tailored piece of malware they have deemed “Industroyer” or “Crash Override.” What makes the software so worrying is its plug-and-play architecture and purpose-built nature, designed for the sole purpose of taking down an electrical grid on demand, automating many of the deployment and execution workflows and working around common mitigation strategies.

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