Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2020
Schneider Electric released advisories for multiple flaws, including issues that can allow taking control of Modicon M221 PLCs. Schneider Electric released security advisories for multiple vulnerabilities impacting various products, including four issues that can be exploited by attackers to take control of Modicon M221 programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Four encryption and authentication issues in Modicon […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2020
US Treasury Department announced sanctions against Russia’s Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics behind Triton malware. The US Treasury Department announced sanctions against a Russian research institute for its alleged role in the development of the Triton malware. “Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated, pursuant to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2020
Experts found critical security flaws in two popular industrial remote access systems that could be exploited by threat actors for malicious purposes. Security researchers from Israeli firm OTORIO found critical vulnerabilities in leading industrial remote access systems that could be exploited by attackers to ban access to industrial production floors, hack into company networks, tamper […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2020
NSA is warning of cyber attacks launched by foreign threat actors against organizations in the critical infrastructure sector across the U.S. The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert warning of cyber attacks targeting critical infrastructure across the U.S. “Over recent months, cyber-actors have demonstrated their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2020
The Israeli authorities are alerting organizations in the water industry following a series of cyberattacks that hit water facilities in the country. The Israeli government has issued an alert to organizations in the water sector following a series of cyberattacks that targeted the water facilities. Israel’s National Cyber Directorate announced to have received reports of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2020
Threat actors employed the previously-undetected PoetRAT Trojan in a Coronavirus-themed campaign aimed at government and energy sectors. Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered a new Coronavirus-themed campaign employing a previously-undiscovered RAT tracked as PoetRAT. The attacks targeted the Azerbaijan government and utility companies, the malicious code was designed to infect supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2020
Experts discovered an easily exploitable heap-based buffer overflow flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-10245, that exists in the CODESYS web server. A critical heap-based buffer overflow flaw in a web server for the CODESYS automation software for engineering control systems could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to crash a server or execute arbitrary code. CODESYS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2020
Cisco Talos experts discovered tens of flaws in WAGO products that expose controllers and human-machine interface (HMI) panels to remote attacks. Talos and Germany’s VDE CERT this week published advisories describing roughly 30 vulnerabilities identified in devices made by WAGO, a German company specializing in electrical connection and automation solutions. The vulnerabilities affect PFC100 and PFC200 programmable […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2020
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
January 28, 2020
The recently discovered Snake Ransomware has been targeting processes and files associated with industrial control systems (ICS). Security experts from SentinelOne reported that the recently discovered Snake Ransomware has been targeting processes and files associated with industrial control systems (ICS). The Snake ransomware is written in the Golang programming language and has been used in […]
