The worst cyberattacks undertaken by nation-state hackers

In 2016, the city of Kiev in Ukraine suddenly found itself without power. While energy was restored an hour later, but it emerged the reason for the unexpected blackout was not due to a glitch in the system, but rather, malware.

Dubbed Industroyer, the malware -- considered the "biggest threat to industrial control systems since Stuxnet" -- was able to wipe systems and cause industrial services to crash.

Ukrainian officials have blamed Russian state-sponsored hackers for the attack as part of an ongoing "cyberwar" against the country.

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