Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2023
Threat actors are targeting Israeli chemical companies operating in the occupied territories, security experts warn. Threat actors have launched a massive hacking campaign aimed at Israeli chemical companies operating in the occupied territories. A group, named Electronic Quds Force, is threatening companies’ engineers and workers and are inviting them to resign from their positions. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2022
The hacktivist collective GhostSec claimed to have compromised 55 Berghof PLCs used by Israeli organizations. Pro-Palestinian Hacking Group GhostSec claimed to have compromised 55 Berghof programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used by Israeli organizations as part of a Free Palestine campaign. On September, 4th, 2022, GhostSec announced on social media and its Telegram channel that it has compromised […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2022
A cyber attack disrupted the IT operations of South Staffordshire Water, a company supplying drinking water to 1.6M consumers daily. South Staffordshire Water has issued a statement confirming the security breach, the company pointed out that the attack did not impact the safety and water distribution systems. South Staffordshire Water plc known as South Staffs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2022
The U.S. has indicted four Russian government employees for their involvement in attacks on entities in critical infrastructure. The U.S. has indicted four Russian government employees for their role in cyberattacks targeting hundreds of companies and organizations in the energy sector worldwide between 2012 and 2018. “The Department of Justice unsealed two indictments today charging […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2021
A researcher found a dozen vulnerabilities in mySCADA myPRO product, some of which have been rated as critical. mySCADA myPRO is a multiplatform, human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system that allows to visualize and control industrial processes. The security researcher Michael Heinzl discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the myPRO product, some […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2021
During the first half of 2021, 637 vulnerabilities affecting industrial control system (ICS) products were published, affecting products from 76 vendors. Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty published its third Biannual ICS Risk & Vulnerability Report that analyzes the vulnerability landscape relevant to leading automation products used across the ICS domain. The company reported that during the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2021
Researchers from the FireEye’s Mandiant team have breached the network of a North American utility and turn off one of its smart meters. Over the years, the number of attacks against ICS/SCADA systems used by industrial organizations worldwide has rapidly increased. Many security firms highlighted the risks related to attacks targeting OT networks used in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2021
The Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for computers in the ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. Kaspersky ICS CERT published a report that provided details about the threat landscape for ICS engineering and integration sector in 2020. The experts gathered data related to the cyberthreats that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2020
A group of Iranian hackers gained access to a un unprotected ICS at an Israeli Water Facility and posted a video as proof of the hack. Researchers from industrial cybersecurity firm OTORIO revealed that a group of Iranian hackers gained access to a un unprotected ICS at the Israeli Water Facility. The threat actors accessed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2020
Experts found a critical flaw in Real-Time Automation’s (RTA) 499ES EtherNet/IP stack that could allow hacking industrial control systems. Tracked as CVE-2020-25159, the flaw is rated 9.8 out of 10 in severity by the industry-standard Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and impacts all versions of EtherNet/IP Adapter Source Code Stack prior to 2.28, which was released on November […]
