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Never Mind! Russian Hackers no longer suspects in Vermont Utility Incident | The Washington Post

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Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
15/100

Date Published: 2017-01-03

Date Updated: 2026-05-05

Author: Paul Roberts

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The Washington Post and Security Ledger coverage indicate that an alert at Burlington Electric was likely not a Russian-targeted intrusion but a single employee’s laptop connecting to a suspicious IP when checking Yahoo mail; the IP may be reused elsewhere causing a false positive, and the episode highlights weak attribution in the DHS/FBI "Grizzly Steppe" report.

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