Cutting off the electricity and shutting off the water supply is the purpose of new malware discovered by authorities.
, which disrupted the United States very significantly with its gas supplies, the very, very targeted attack. And then once the attackers get in, they look just like normal, normal activity. So once they get into the very difficult to differentiate what's real and what's not without just shutting everything off," said Miri.
A big attack on the utilities at those locations could start small, according to Ed Hirs, an energy fellow with the University of Houston.
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