Report: Russian attack on Wolf Creek also targeted another nearby nuclear plant
https://www.wibw.com/content/news/Report-Russian-attack-on-Wolf-Creek-also-targeted-another-nearby-nuclear-plant-511410032.htmlBURLINGTON, Kan. (WIBW) -- The Russian cyber-attack on the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, in Coffey Co., two years ago also targeted another nuclear facility that’s less than an hour’s drive from Northeast Kansas, according to a new report from the New York Times.
In an article on offensive efforts by the U.S. Cyber Command, the newspaper revealed Friday previously undisclosed reports that the Moscow-backed hackers tried to breach the systems at Nebraska Public Power District’s Cooper Nuclear Station, located along the Missouri River, in Brownsville, Nebraska. The generating station is just over 40 miles north of Hiawatha, via Highways 73 and 67.
In March 2018, the FBI and Dept. of Homeland Security confirmed the Russians were behind the attempted infiltration of Wolf Creek a year earlier. At the time of the attack, the hackers' were described as using techniques that mimic a Russian group known as "Energetic Bear.”
The hackers reportedly sent emails containing fake resumes to senior industrial control engineers at Wolf Creek. If the recipient clicked on the document, the attackers could steal their credentials to access other machines on a network. A similar method was used in against the Nebraska facility, the report states, making it into communications networks, but never took over control systems.
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Actually say what you want, nobody believes it anyway!
I live just South of Topeka in a little community area that covers about 5 square miles with around 260 people so not big but close to Topeka and Lawrence with KC only about 65 miles away and Manhattan about 60 miles away. I do like Emporia but have not spent a lot of time there, I have quite a few friends around there who are teaching music at Emporia State, we play together in Topeka. I was born in Topeka and have traveled all over this country and a lot of the world. I am content to settle here on my farm very close to where my family homesteaded in the 1800's. My history of free stater ancestors (including friends and companions with John Brown)and members of the first free state governing body keeps me solidly here. Brownback made it miserable for a while but we recover and will begin to build back, already getting a good start.
Nice to know another happy Kansas resident. 
