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SecurityWeek spoke with more than 300 cybersecurity experts to see what is bubbling beneath the surface, and examine how those evolving threats will present new and expanded risk for cybersecurity teams in 2023 and beyond.
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The overall effect of current global geopolitical conditions is that nation states have a greater incentive to target the ICS/OT of critical industries, while cybercriminals have had their restraints reduced.
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Operational technology (OT) includes any hardware and software that directly monitors and controls industrial equipment and all its assets, processes and events to detect or initiate a change. Yet despite occupying a critical role in a large number of essential industries, OT security is also uniquely vulnerable to attack. From power grids to nuclear plants, […]
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Agencies of the US Government have issued a joint warning that hackers have revealed their capability to gain full system access to industrial control systems that might help enemy states sabotage critical infrastructure.
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The Department of Energy, CISA, the FBI, and the NSA jointly issued an advisory describing a sophisticated piece of malware called Pipedream that’s designed to attack a wide range of industrial control systems. This is clearly from a government, … Continue reading Industrial Control System Malware Discovered
Dragos says the group behind the tools has a “breadth of knowledge” that’s “beyond” any previously witnessed.
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The list also includes Evgeny Viktorovich Gladkikh, the researcher indicted for creating the malware, which targets industrial control systems.
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By Deeba Ahmed
Researcher Jose Bertin has identified critical security vulnerabilities in a building controller made by Russian firm Tekon Avtomatika…
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According to a report from CISA last week, there were three ransomware attacks against water treatment plants last year.
WWS Sector cyber intrusions from 2019 to early 2021 include:
- In August 2021, malicious cyber actors used Ghost variant ransomware against a California-based WWS facility. The ransomware variant had been in the system for about a month and was discovered when three supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) servers displayed a ransomware message.
- In July 2021, cyber actors used remote access to introduce ZuCaNo ransomware onto a Maine-based WWS facility’s wastewater SCADA computer. The treatment system was run manually until the SCADA computer was restored using local control and more frequent operator rounds.
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By Deeba Ahmed
US has warned of more ransomware attacks on IT and OT networks of country’s Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector facilities.
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