Posts Tagged ‘critical infrastructure’
New Jersey Man Charged with Soliciting Destruction of Energy Facilities
Andrew Takhistov, 18, of East Brunswick, New Jersey, was arrested yesterday and made his initial appearance in court today for allegedly soliciting another individual to destroy energy facilities. “Andrew Takhistov was allegedly on his way to Ukraine to join the Russian Volunteer Corps when we arrested him on charges of recruiting an individual to destroy…
Read MoreNeo-Nazi charged with plotting to attack power grid has a new defender — the ACLU
Attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project have joined the defense team for Brandon Clint Russell, the neo-Nazi accused of plotting to attack power substations around Baltimore. Their involvement stems from questions raised in recent weeks by Russell’s attorneys about whether federal authorities used and have failed to disclose the use of…
Read MoreMarine veteran pleads guilty in neo-Nazi plot to damage power grid
The final defendant in a group of five former military members with ties to white-supremacist organizations pleaded guilty this week to weapons charges stemming from a plot to attack the power grid in the northwestern United States. Jordan Duncan, a Marine veteran who was previously stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, appeared Monday in…
Read MoreRussian Attacks On Ukraine Power Grid Touch Kyiv With Blackouts Ahead Of Peak Demand
Sustained Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid in recent weeks have forced leaders of the war-ravaged country to institute nationwide rolling blackouts. Without adequate air defenses to counter assaults and allow for repairs, though, the shortages could still worsen as need spikes in late summer and the bitter-cold winter. The Russian airstrikes targeting the grid…
Read MorePoland Arrests Sabotage Suspects And Warns Of Potential Hostile Acts By Russia
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday that three people were recently arrested on suspicion of links to foreign-sponsored sabotage, adding to nine others already under arrest. Tusk was speaking at a weekly news conference about what steps his government was taking to protect Poland against hostile activity, including incidents with suspected links to Russian…
Read MoreShip That Caused Deadly Baltimore Bridge Collapse Has Been Refloated And Is Moving Back To Port
The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was refloated Monday and has begun moving back to port. The Dali has remained at the collapse site since it lost power and crashed into one of the bridge’s supporting columns on March 26, killing six construction workers and snarling traffic…
Read MoreMaryland woman pleads guilty to alleged plot to attack Baltimore power stations
A Maryland woman accused of plotting to carry out attacks on multiple energy substations surrounding Baltimore pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal conspiracy and firearms charges, court records show. Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Catonsville, was charged last year with conspiring with a Florida-based founder of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen to carry out the attacks, in…
Read MoreRural Texas Towns Report Cyberattacks That Caused One Water System to Overflow
A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility becoming a target of foreign cyberattacks. The attack was one of three on small towns in the rural Texas Panhandle. Local officials said the…
Read MoreNew charge added against woman accused of conspiring with neo-Nazi leader to attack energy grid
A federal gun charge has been added to the case against a Baltimore County woman accused of conspiring with a neo-Nazi leader to attack and destroy energy substations around the Baltimore area to “lay [the] city to waste.” Sarah Beth Clendaniel, of Catonsville, was initially indicted in February 2023 on charges that she conspired to…
Read MoreRussia-linked hacking group suspected of carrying out cyberattack on Texas water facility, cybersecurity firm says
A hacking group with ties to the Russian government is suspected of carrying out a cyberattack in January that caused a tank at a Texas water facility to overflow, experts from US cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Wednesday. The hack in the small town of Muleshoe, in north Texas, coincided with at least two other towns…
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