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- Cisco created a prototype device that could help keep Ukraine's power grid running this winter.
- In a covert operation first reported by CNN, the devices were delivered using a US plane carrying humanitarian aid.
- The devices were designed to keep the grid afloat despite Russian cyberattacks.
Cisco created cybersecurity prototypes for Ukraine to protect its power grid, but getting them into Ukraine required a bit of subterfuge.
US agencies helped sneak the devices into the country, in part by using a US Air Force plane carrying humanitarian aid, according to a new report from CNN.