Researchers uncover vulnerabilities in devices used at industrial facilities
For the three Ukrainian power companies that suspected Russian hackers pried their way into in 2015, the pain wasn’t over when the attackers opened the companies’ circuit breakers and sent 225,000 people into darkness. The intruders also planted malicious code on key equipment at power substations, preventing engineers from remotely closing the circuit breakers and slowing the effort to restore power. The way the hackers blinded the Ukrainian power firms to their own operations is still studied by utilities around the world, and security specialists investigating critical electric equipment. A group of researchers at cybersecurity company Trend Micro on Wednesday added important data to those efforts by revealing multiple vulnerabilities in the same types of devices exploited by the Russians five years ago. By making their findings public, researchers are prompting organizations to further scrutinize the little black boxes that serve as translators on key networks. The research covered vendors in France, […]
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