The U.S. power grid has become the primary target for white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in the United States.

The FBI announced on Feb. 6 that they thwarted an attack on Baltimore's power grid by a Sarah Beth Clendaniel of Maryland conspiring with Brandon Russell, the head of a small neo-Nazi group in Florida.

The two communicated on encrypted apps where Russell allegedly shared links to maps with locations of electrical substations telling Clendaniel that a small number of attacks could cause a "cascading failure".