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Hacking the grid: How digital sabotage turns infrastructure into a weapon

  • Saman Zonouz, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity and Privacy and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology--The Conversation Africa
  • published date: 2026-01-22 13:34:22 UTC

The US used a cyberattack to turn off power in Caracas during the raid to seize Maduro. The US grid is also vulnerable to this kind of attack.

Today's power grid equipment incorporates internet-connected – and therefore hackable – computers. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The darkness that swept over the Venezuelan capital in the predawn hours of… [+8651 chars]