Kremlin threat casts shadow on US utility regulators’ summer conference

摘要

The subject of ongoing cyberattacks and spying by Russia against thernU.S. energy sector loomed large during security discussions at the NationalrnAssociation of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ summer conference inrnScottsdale, Ariz., on July 15 and July 16. Energy industry insiders fear thatrnRussia — in particular, the country’s foreign military intelligence agencyrnknown as the GRU — is targeting software designers of industrial controlrnsystems, or ICS, that run natural gas infrastructure and the bulk power system.