ICS-SCADA

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2020
Office network at the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) breached

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) disclose a security breach this week. The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) revealed this week that threat actors penetrated its network. ENTSO-E, the European Network of Transmission System Operators, represents 43 electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) from 36 countries across Europe, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2020
Dragos Report: Analysis of ICS flaws disclosed in 2019

More than 400 flaws affecting industrial control systems (ICS) were disclosed in 2019, more than 100 were zero-day vulnerabilities. According to a report published by Dragos, the experts analyzed 438 ICS vulnerabilities that were reported in 212 security advisories, 26% of advisories is related to zero-day flaws. The experts determined 116 unique types of flaws, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 245

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs From iPhone to NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM – exploit ‘Printconfig dll with a real-world example Iran announced to have foiled a second cyber-attack in a week Largest hospital system in New Jersey was hit by ransomware attack A thief stole […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2019
Schneider Electric fixes DoS flaws in Modicon, EcoStruxure products

Schneider Electric addressed several vulnerabilities in some Modicon controllers and several EcoStruxure products. Schneider Electric addresses three denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities Schneider Electric Modicon M580, M340, Quantum and Premium controllers. The vendor has informed its customers that all three flaws are caused by improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions. The three vulnerabilities are: The first […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 244

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs SEC Xtractor – Experts released an open-source hardware analysis tool US authorities charged Dridex gang members for stealing over $100 Million A bug in the decryptor for the Ryuk ransomware could cause data loss China 3-5-2 directive orders […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 13, 2019
Flaws in Siemens SPPA-T3000 control system expose power plants to hack

Experts discovered tens of flaws in the Siemens SPPA-T3000 control systems that could be exploited to attack fossil and renewable power plants. Siemens informed customers that the SPPA-T3000 Application Server is affected by 19 vulnerabilities and the SPAA-T3000 MS3000 Migration Server is impacted by 35 security issues. Some of the vulnerabilities have been rated as […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 241

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Experts found undocumented access feature in Siemens SIMATIC PLCs Tianfu Cup 2019 Day 1 – Chinese experts hacked Chrome, Edge, Safari, Office365 Crooks use carding bots to check stolen card data ahead of the holiday season Experts report […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2019
Kaspersky found dozens of flaws in 4 open-source VNC software

Kaspersky researchers found dozens of flaws in four popular open-source virtual network computing (VNC) systems. Experts from Kaspersky analyzed several different implementations of a remote access system called Virtual Network Computing (VNC) and identified a number of memory corruption vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities found by the experts could lead to remote code execution. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2019
Experts found undocumented access feature in Siemens SIMATIC PLCs

Researchers discovered a vulnerability in Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 programmable logic controller (PLC) that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable devices. Researchers discovered an undocumented access feature in Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 programmable logic controller (PLC) that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected devices. The feature was discovered by […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2019
Exclusive – Analysis of the sample that hit the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant

Expert Marco Ramilli and his team analyzed the sample that infected systems at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, it is a targeted attack. During the past few days a cyber attack hit Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant: the largest nuclear power plant located in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The news was announced on Monday, […]