10 August 2023
Common TTPs of attacks against industrial organizations. Implants for uploading dataIn this part we present information on the four types of implants and two tools used during the last (third) stage of the attacks discovered.
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31 July 2023
Common TTPs of attacks against industrial organizations. Implants for gathering dataThis part of the research is devoted to second stage malware used to gather data on infected systems of industrial organizations.
20 July 2023
Common TTPs of attacks against industrial organizations. Implants for remote accessIn this article (which is the first part of the report) we analyze common TTPs of implants used by threat actors to establish a persistent remote access channel into the infrastructure of industrial organizations.
22 November 2022
ICS cyberthreats in 2023 – what to expectCybersecurity incidents were plentiful in 2022, causing many problems for industrial infrastructure owners and operators. Below we share some of our thoughts on potential developments of 2023, though we cannot claim to be providing either a complete picture or a high degree of precision.
08 September 2022
H1 2022 – a brief overview of the main incidents in industrial cybersecurityEvents in the cybersecurity world, including ICS, were intense in H1 2022.
08 August 2022
Targeted attack on industrial enterprises and public institutionsThe attackers were able to penetrate dozens of enterprises and even hijack the IT infrastructure of some, taking control of systems used to manage security solutions. The goal of this series of attacks was cyberespionage.
27 June 2022
Attacks on industrial control systems using ShadowPadA previously unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor attacking telecommunications, manufacturing, and transport organizations in several Asian countries. The group exploits MS Exchange vulnerability to deploy ShadowPad malware and infiltrates building automation systems of one of the victims.
28 February 2022
APT attacks on industrial companies in H2 2021This summary provides an overview of APT attacks on industrial enterprises disclosed in H2 2021.
16 December 2021
PseudoManuscrypt: a mass-scale spyware attack campaignKaspersky products blocked PseudoManuscrypt on more than 35,000 computers in 195 countries of the world. Targets of attacks include a significant number of industrial and government organizations, including enterprises in the military-industrial complex and research laboratories.
23 November 2021
Threats to ICS and industrial enterprises in 2022 as they are foreseen from November 2021In recent years, we have observed various trends in the changing threat landscape for industrial enterprises, most of which have been evolving for some time. We can say with high confidence that many of these trends will not only continue, but gain new traction in the coming year.
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30 May 2023
Why APTs are so successful – stories from IR trenchesDuring IR, while trying to figure out what went wrong, we’ve found numerous issues
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19 October 2018
New GreyEnergy malware attacks industrial networksExperts point to the similarities between the new malware and BlackEnergy, and a possible connection of the attacks with the TeleBots criminal group
06 August 2018
APT group called RASPITE attacks industrial enterprisesDragos has published information on a newly-identified APT group, which it calls RASPITE. According to Dragos, the group's activity overlaps significantly with that of Leafminer, a group identified earlier by Symantec
25 October 2017
US-CERT Reports APT Attack on Critical InfrastructureUS-CERT has published a report on a targeted (APT) attack on government entities and organizations in energy, nuclear, aviation and other sectors. The attackers were interested in documents on industrial processes in targeted organizations.