Utilities are 'the new cyber battlefield,' as US ramps up pressure on Russia's electric grid

Utility Dive: The United States has increased efforts to insert malicious code into Russia's electric grid, a development the The New York Times warned "enshrines power grids as a legitimate target" in the nations' cold war of cyber one-upmanship.

While President Trump denied the story on Twitter, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said it meant a cyberwar between the two countries is a "hypothetical possibility."

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