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07 February 2018
Gas is too expensive? Let’s make it cheap!A few months ago, while undertaking unrelated research into online connected devices, we uncovered something surprising and realized almost immediately that we could be looking at a critical security threat.
22 January 2018
A silver bullet for the attacker. A study into the security of hardware license tokensIn the past years, the problem of vulnerabilities in industrial automation systems has been becoming increasingly important. The fact that industrial control systems have been developing in parallel with IT systems, relatively independently and often without regard for modern secure coding practices is probably the main source of ICS security problems.
16 January 2018
MLAD: Machine Learning for Anomaly DetectionModern industrial control systems (ICS) are cyber-physical systems that include IT infrastructure and operational technologies or OT infrastructure. Attacks on OT pose the greatest danger and are very difficult to detect. The MLAD (Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection) technology is designed to protect OT.
30 November 2017
Industrial Enterprise and IoT Security Threats: Forecast for 20182017 was one of the most eventful years in terms of information security incidents affecting industrial systems, and it changed the way industrial companies think about protecting key operational technology systems.
15 November 2017
The Relevance of WPA2 Vulnerabilities and KRACK Attacks to Industrial SystemsCritical vulnerabilities that have recently been identified in the WPA2 protocol enable threat actors to carry out Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks and force devices connected to the network to reinstall encryption keys that protect traffic. These vulnerabilities can be used, among other things, to implement attacks on industrial automation systems.
28 September 2017
Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2017Kaspersky Lab Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT) publishes the results of its research on the threat landscape for industrial automation systems for the first six months of 2017.
22 June 2017
WannaCry on industrial networks: error correctionDuring the period from 12 to 15 May 2017, numerous companies across the globe were attacked by a network cryptoworm called WannaCry. The worm’s victims include various manufacturing companies, oil refineries, city infrastructure objects and electrical distribution network facilities.
19 June 2017
Vulnerable System Update Statistics. General ElectricThis article is devoted to vulnerabilities in General Electric products. The article looks only at known vulnerabilities, a list of which was prepared based using the MITRE CVE database. All the vulnerabilities in question were uncovered in 2012 – 2016.
15 June 2017
Nigerian phishing: industrial companies under attackIn late 2016, the Kaspersky Lab Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT) reported on phishing attacks that were primarily targeting industrial companies from the metallurgy, electric power, construction, engineering and other sectors.
28 March 2017
Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in the second half of 2016The Kaspersky Lab Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT) is starting a series of regular publications about our research devoted to the threat landscape for industrial organizations.
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