A power cut that hit part of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, in December has been judged a digital assault by analysts researching the episode.
The power outage endured a little more than a hour and began just before midnight on 17 December.
The digital security organization Information Systems Security Partners (ISSP) has connected the episode to a hack and power outage in 2015 that influenced 225,000.
It likewise said a progression of other late assaults in Ukraine were associated.
The 2016 power slice had added up to lost around one-fifth of Kiev's energy utilization around then of night, national vitality organization Ukrenergo said at the time.
It influenced the Pivnichna substation outside the capital, and left individuals in part of the city and an encompassing region without power until soon after 01:00.
The assault occurred precisely one year after a much bigger hack on a provincial power dispersion organization. That was later faulted for the Russian security administrations.
The most recent assault has not freely been ascribed to any state on-screen character, but rather Ukraine has said Russia coordinated a great many digital assaults towards it in the last months of 2016.
'Very little extraordinary'
ISSP, a Ukrainian organization examining the occurrences in the interest of Ukrenergo, now gives off an impression of being proposing a firmer connection.
It said that both the 2015 and 2016 assaults were associated, alongside a progression of hacks on other state foundations this December, including the national railroad framework, a few government services and a national benefits support.
Oleksii Yasnskiy, head of ISSP labs, stated: "The assaults in 2016 and 2015 were very little unique - the main refinement was that the assaults of 2016 turned out to be more mind boggling and were vastly improved composed."
He additionally said diverse criminal gatherings had cooperated, and appeared to test procedures that could be utilized somewhere else on the planet for harm.
In any case, David Emm, foremost security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said it was "difficult to state without a doubt" if the episode was a trial run.
"It's conceivable, yet given that basic framework offices change so generally - and in this way require distinctive ways to deal with trade off the frameworks - the re-utilization of malware crosswise over frameworks is probably going to be restricted," he told the BBC.
"Then again, if a framework has ended up being permeable previously, it is probably going to energize additionally endeavors."
'Demonstrations of fear based oppression'
In December, Ukraine's leader, Petro Poroshenko, said programmers had focused on state foundations approximately 6,500 circumstances in the most recent two months of 2016.
He said the episodes indicated Russia was pursuing a digital war against the nation.
"Demonstrations of fear based oppression and harm on basic foundation offices stay conceivable today," Mr Poroshenko said amid a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, as indicated by an announcement discharged by his office.
"The examination of various occurrences showed the complicity straightforwardly or by implication of Russian security administrations."
The power outage endured a little more than a hour and began just before midnight on 17 December.
The digital security organization Information Systems Security Partners (ISSP) has connected the episode to a hack and power outage in 2015 that influenced 225,000.
It likewise said a progression of other late assaults in Ukraine were associated.
The 2016 power slice had added up to lost around one-fifth of Kiev's energy utilization around then of night, national vitality organization Ukrenergo said at the time.
It influenced the Pivnichna substation outside the capital, and left individuals in part of the city and an encompassing region without power until soon after 01:00.
The assault occurred precisely one year after a much bigger hack on a provincial power dispersion organization. That was later faulted for the Russian security administrations.
The most recent assault has not freely been ascribed to any state on-screen character, but rather Ukraine has said Russia coordinated a great many digital assaults towards it in the last months of 2016.
'Very little extraordinary'
ISSP, a Ukrainian organization examining the occurrences in the interest of Ukrenergo, now gives off an impression of being proposing a firmer connection.
It said that both the 2015 and 2016 assaults were associated, alongside a progression of hacks on other state foundations this December, including the national railroad framework, a few government services and a national benefits support.
Oleksii Yasnskiy, head of ISSP labs, stated: "The assaults in 2016 and 2015 were very little unique - the main refinement was that the assaults of 2016 turned out to be more mind boggling and were vastly improved composed."
He additionally said diverse criminal gatherings had cooperated, and appeared to test procedures that could be utilized somewhere else on the planet for harm.
In any case, David Emm, foremost security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab, said it was "difficult to state without a doubt" if the episode was a trial run.
"It's conceivable, yet given that basic framework offices change so generally - and in this way require distinctive ways to deal with trade off the frameworks - the re-utilization of malware crosswise over frameworks is probably going to be restricted," he told the BBC.
"Then again, if a framework has ended up being permeable previously, it is probably going to energize additionally endeavors."
'Demonstrations of fear based oppression'
In December, Ukraine's leader, Petro Poroshenko, said programmers had focused on state foundations approximately 6,500 circumstances in the most recent two months of 2016.
He said the episodes indicated Russia was pursuing a digital war against the nation.
"Demonstrations of fear based oppression and harm on basic foundation offices stay conceivable today," Mr Poroshenko said amid a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, as indicated by an announcement discharged by his office.
"The examination of various occurrences showed the complicity straightforwardly or by implication of Russian security administrations."
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