Kremlin cracks the electric grid

Hackers linked to the Russian government ran “a giant and long-running campaign that put them inside the control rooms of U.S. electric utilities where they could have caused blackouts,” said Rebecca Smith in The Wall Street Journal. Federal officials believe the team of hackers was affiliated with “a shadowy statesponsored group previously identified as Dragonfly or Energetic Bear.” The group infiltrated utilities’ “supposedly secure, ‘air-gapped,’ or isolated networks” with startling ease, beginning with “key vendors who had trusted relationships with power companies.” Investigators say the Russian threat has been pronounced since 2014 and add that it’s possible “the hackers used their access to prepare the battlefield for some future, devastating blow.” and gender identity. YouTube also took action last week, deleting four Infowars videos and issuing a strike against Infowars, its second overall; three strikes in 90 days get an account banned. The channel drew YouTube’s ire with a video in which Jones fantasizes about shooting Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating the president, and accuses Mueller of pedophilia without evidence. Jones has gotten around YouTube restrictions by livestreaming from supporters’ channels.