water treatment plant

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2017
A simulation shows how a ransomware could hack PLCs in a water treatment plant

The security researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have simulated a ransomware-based attack on PLCs in a water treatment plant. The security researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have conducted an interesting research on the potential impact of ransomware on industrial control systems (ICS). The researchers David Formby, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia […]