Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2014
The ICS-CERT revealed that the BlackEnergy malware targeted SCADA HMI systems may be exploiting a recently patched flaw in the Siemens SIMATIC WinCC. Security experts at the Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) reported that the BlackEnergy malware was used by threat actors in the wild to compromise HMI (human-machine interface) systems. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2014
Security researcher Billy Rios has created WhiteScope, a database containing hundreds of thousands of “known-good” files of SCADA and ICS software. The cyber security expert Billy Rios has created WhiteScope, a database containing hundreds of thousands of “known-good” files from makers of SCADA and ICS software with the intent to support users to identify legitimate ICS/SCADA files. “WhiteScope has over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2014
The industrial supplier Siemens has patched two critical vulnerabilities in its solutions, Siemens WinCC application in use must be updated urgently. The industrial supplier Siemens has patched two critical vulnerabilities in the Siemens application that bad actors are exploiting in the wild. Siemens has also informed its customers that its researchers are already working on updates […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2014
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed that Russian hackers have infiltrated several critical infrastructure in the United States. Government officials reported to the ABC News agency that hackers have compromised computing systems in many nation’s critical infrastructure. The attackers have infected the software that runs in the critical infrastructure with a malware, the circumstance creates a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2014
Researchers at the last Black Hat Europe have presented the results of their research on DTM/FDT components, demonstrating the presence of serious flaws. The researchers Alexander Bolshev and Gleb Cherbov at Digital Security, have discovered several serious vulnerabilities in industrial components designed to implement the management interface industrial control systems (ICS). The experts have analyzed the implementation of Field Device Tool / […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2014
ICS-CERT issued a security advisory for the existence of vulnerabilities in a variety of Schneider Electric StruxureWare SCADA Expert ClearSCADA versions. According to a recent advisory issued by the ICS-CERT (ICSA-14-259-01) several Electric’s StruxureWare SCADA Expert ClearSCADA are affected by different vulnerabilities. The independent researcher Aditya Sood has discovered a weak hashing algorithm and CSRF vulnerability in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2014
The Kaspersky Lab Team has issued a report which includes details of the investigation related to the Energetic Bear – Crouching Yeti APT campaign. Energetic Bear, aka Crouching Yeti, is the recently discovered APT campaign that targeted energy companies, manufacturers, industrial, pharmaceutical, construction, and many IT companies. Security experts have analyzed the Energetic Bear APT campaign, which appears […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2014
The ICS-CERT has issued a security advisory related to the existence of OpenSSL vulnerabilities affecting different Siemens industrial products. Several Siemens industrial products are affected by four vulnerabilities in their OpenSSL implementation which could be remotely exploited to run a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack or to cause the crash of web servers of the products. Critical infrastructure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 20, 2014
Researchers at FireEye have detected a new variant of Havex RAT, which scans SCADA network via Object linking and embedding for Process Control (OPC). Security experts at F-Secure and Symantec have recently announced a surge of malicious campaigns based on “Havex” malware against critical infrastructure. The bad actors behind the Havex campaign mainly targeted companies in the energy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2014
Security experts at Symantec have detected a new series of attacks worldwide conducted by the Dragonfly gang on SCADA/ICS in critical infrastructure. The energy industry is under attack, more than one thousand companies in Europe and North America are constantly under attack. ICS/SCADA systems are privileged targets of state-sponsored hackers and cyber criminals, last week I wrote […]
