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
December 16, 2019
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 13, 2019
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
October 14, 2019
Cisco Talos experts discovered nearly a dozen flaws affecting some of the models of Schneider Electric’s Modicon programmable logic controllers. Talos experts discovered 11 security flaws affecting some models of Schneider Electric’s Modicon programmable logic controllers. Affected models are Modicon M580, M340, BMENOC 0311, BMENOC 0321, Quantum, Premium, and Modicon BMxCRA and 140CRA. The unique […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2019
The United States and Baltic announced cooperation to protect the Baltic energy grid from cyber attacks as they disconnect from the Russian electricity grid. The US and Baltic agreed to cooperate to protect the Baltic energy grid from cyber attacks as they disconnect from the Russian electricity grid. US Energy Secretary Rick Perry and counterparts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2019
A group of Israeli researchers demonstrated that it is possible to take over the Simatic S7 controller one of the most secure controllers in the industry. A team of Israeli researchers demonstrated that it is possible to take control of the Simatic S7 controller without the knowledge of the operators. The team was composed of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2019
Siemens Patch Tuesday updates for April 2019 address several serious vulnerabilities, including some DoS flaws in many industrial products. Siemens has released Patch Tuesday updates that address several serious flaws including some DoS vulnerabilities. Siemens published six new advisories that cover a total of 11 vulnerabilities. One of the issues addressed by Siemens is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2019
The electronics firm Omron released a security update to address flaws in its CX-Supervisor product that can be exploited DoS attacks and remote code execution. CX-Supervisor allows to rapidly create human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems thanks to the availability of a large number of predefined functions and libraries. The software […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2019
Early January, an interesting malware sample has been disclosed through the InfoSec community: a potential GreyEnergy implant still under investigation. This kind of threat, previously analyzed by third party firms, contains similarities with the infamous BlackEnergy malware, used in the attacks against the Ukrainian energy industry back in 2015. The Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB researchers dissected this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2018
Security experts discovered several vulnerabilities in WECON’s PI Studio HMI software, the company has verified the issues but has not yet released patches. Researchers Mat Powell and Natnael Samson discovered several vulnerabilities in WECON’s PI Studio HMI software, a software widely used in critical manufacturing, energy, metallurgy, chemical, and water and wastewater sectors. Both experts […]
