All optimism evaporated in 2014, when the Russians took their attacks one step further. That January, CrowdStrike discovered that Russian hackers had successfully compromised industrial control software companies and Trojanized the software updates that made their way into hundreds of industrial control systems across the country. It was the same technique the Americans and Israelis had used five years earlier with Flame, when they infected computers in Iran using Trojanized Microsoft software updates.
