17 March 2025
Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. Q4 2024The percentage of ICS computers on which malicious scripts and phishing pages as well as ransomware were blocked continued to increase.
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17 March 2025
Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. Q4 2024The percentage of ICS computers on which malicious scripts and phishing pages as well as ransomware were blocked continued to increase.
24 February 2025
Operation SalmonSlalomKaspersky discovered a new attack targeting industrial organizations in APAC
19 February 2025
Q3 2024 – a brief overview of the main incidents in industrial cybersecurityMany large companies, including some well-known brands, affected by cyberattacks. An unusually high number of victims were in critical sectors such as utilities and power and energy.
29 January 2025
Threat predictions for industrial enterprises 2025Kaspersky ICS CERT analyzes industrial threat trends and makes forecasts on how the industrial threat landscape will look in 2025.
26 December 2024
APT and financial attacks on industrial organizations in Q3 2024During the quarter, a number of research papers and technical advisories were published detailing attacks that either targeted or affected organizations in the industrial sector. From our perspective, the following are likely to be the most interesting for researchers and useful for cybersecurity practitioners
25 December 2024
Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. Regions, Q3 2024The percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased from the second quarter to 22%. But the figure increased in Africa, South Asia, South-East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and East Asia. Regionally, the percentage ranged from 9.7% in Northern Europe to 31.5% in Africa.
25 December 2024
Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. Q3 2024The percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased by 1.5 pp from the second quarter to 22%. The biometrics sector led the surveyed industries in terms of this parameter.
21 November 2024
Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. Regions, Q2 2024The global percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased from Q1 2024 to 23.5%. But the figure increased in four regions. Regionally, the percentage ranged from 11.3% in Northern Europe to 30% in Africa.
08 November 2024
Q2 2024 – a brief overview of the main incidents in industrial cybersecurityA total of 35 incidents were confirmed by victims. Half of the attacks reportedly resulted in the denial of IT systems and the denial of operations. There is a case of a company that was unable to recover from the impact of a cyberattack and decided to cease operations.
03 October 2024
APT and financial attacks on industrial organizations in Q2 2024This summary provides an overview of the reports of APT and financial attacks on industrial enterprises that were disclosed in Q2 2024, as well as the related activities of groups that have been observed attacking industrial organizations and critical infrastructure facilities.
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18 November 2020
Municipal services at Canadian City of Saint John down due to cyberattackAttack by Ryuk ransomware disrupts nearly all municipal services in Canadian city of Saint John
28 May 2020
Multiple vulnerabilities in EcoStruxure Operator Terminal ExpertVulnerabilities that can lead to unsanctioned account access or remote code execution.
28 May 2020
Dangerous vulnerabilities in Emerson OpenEnterpriseKaspersky ICS CERT has discovered vulnerabilities that may allow threat actors to modify configuration files, execute arbitrary code remotely or access user passwords.
20 May 2020
Cyber incidents in industrial enterprises during the first half of May: Stadler, Elexon, BlueScopeVictims included a railway stock manufacturer, an electric utility company and a steel producer. One incident brought operations to a halt
30 April 2020
Multiple vulnerabilities in ABB 800xA DCSThe vulnerabilities could allow attackers to remotely compromise hosts, cause denial-of-service conditions or elevate their privileges
29 April 2020
Targeted attacks on Israeli water supply and wastewater treatment facilitiesIsraeli authorities have warned of possible attacks on SCADA systems of wastewater treatment, water pumping and sewerage facilities
24 April 2020
Malicious campaigns against Azerbaijan’s government and industrial organizationsThe attackers use PoetRAT, a new RAT Trojan distributed via Microsoft Word documents
17 April 2020
Dozens of Siemens industrial devices are affected by DoS vulnerabilitiesSiemens industrial solutions are affected by SegmentSmack and FragmentSmack vulnerabilities, which could lead to device denial of service
17 April 2020
New ransomware attacks on industrial enterprisesIn new ransomware attacks, victims face the choice between paying the ransom and seeing their sensitive data published by the attackers
13 April 2020
Multiple vulnerabilities in Advantech WebAccess/NMSIf exploited, the vulnerabilities could lead to arbitrary code execution, file manipulations, denial of service and the creation of an admin account
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Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT and Fraunhofer IOSB are working together to address industrial cybersecurity and awareness challenges.
To drive the discussion around the future of OT cybersecurity and equip industry practitioners with the relevant knowledge and best practices, Kaspersky Lab invites industrial cybersecurity experts to submit their researches and reports to its 6th annual conference on industrial cybersecurity by June 1
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with Kaspersky Lab, hosted its second annual “Think Security” seminar devoted to protecting industrial automation systems from cyberattacks. The seminar featured an industrial Capture the Flag (CTF) contest
Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT experts have held the first tech talk on industrial cyber security at UC Berkeley.
The finals of Kaspersky Industrial CTF 2017, an industrial cybersecurity contest, were held in Shanghai. This was the third CTF (Capture the Flag) tournament organized by Kaspersky Lab and the first to have the international status
Kaspersky Lab has released the results of Kaspersky Industrial CTF 2017 qualifications, which were held online on October 6-8, 2017. This year’s tournament is truly international, with 696 teams from different countries participating in qualifications. The top three teams were, respectively, CyKor (Korea), Eat, Sleep, Pwn, Repeat (Germany) and Tokyo Westerns (Japan).
Kaspersky Lab has held the Industrial Cybersecurity: Safeguarding Technological Progress conference in Saint Petersburg. The conference was devoted to the most pressing issues associated with protecting modern industrial systems from cyberthreats. Its 300 guests and speakers represented more than 170 organizations from over 15 countries across the globe.