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European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company

The European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company to test its cyber-defense capabilities.

Cyber drills are essential to test the resilience of our infrastructure, the European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company to test its cyber-defense capabilities.

The simulation took place on Friday and is part of a six-week exercise aimed at testing also the cooperation among member states and their joint response.

“The Finnish attack is part of a six-week exercise to stress-test Europe’s resilience, strengthen preparedness and cooperation among member states, and improve the effectiveness of a joint response.” reads the post published by Bloomberg. “The tests are expected to conclude during a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the end of February.”

The scenario for the drill sees an attack against software used by a major energy company. The experts chose software that is widely adopted across sectors and member states in order to evaluate the impact of the incident.

The EU response involves Computer Emergency Response Teams from member states, the drills test their capability in monitoring the incident and finding its origin, as well as taking possible actions to mitigate the cyber attack.

The start of the cyber exercise was concurrent with the attacks against tens of Ukraine’s government websites.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, cyber attack)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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