logoalt Hacker News

freediddy • yesterday at 3:24 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Has no one been paying attention to how Ukraine/Russia and now Iran has been targeting civilian infrastructure? All of Spain's electricity was down last year from a cyberattack. This is completely a new line of threat that we need to address.


Replies

raisin_churn • today at 12:51 AM

Can you source your claim that Spain's electricity was down from a cyberattack? Because that never happened.

https://www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03/20/entso-e-publishes-expe...

3eb7988a1663 • today at 12:24 AM

There are significantly better targets than fields of solar panels. There are 132 oil refineries in the country. Taking out even one would have immediate repercussions to energy security which are not easily rectified.

There are probably only a handful of backbone transmission routes which serve tens of millions of people. These are isolated and unprotected and could likely be disabled with a loaded truck plowing into a critical piece of infrastructure.

➕ show 1 reply