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25 February 2021
Lazarus targets defense industry with ThreatNeedleIn mid-2020, we realized that Lazarus was launching attacks on the defense industry using the ThreatNeedle cluster, an advanced malware cluster of Manuscrypt (a.k.a. NukeSped). While investigating this activity, we were able to observe the complete life cycle of an attack, uncovering more technical details and links to the group’s other campaigns.
26 January 2021
SunBurst industrial victimsHow many industrial organizations had installed backdoored SolarWinds versions? We present the results of our analysis.
02 December 2020
ICS threat predictions for 2021We present our vision of what challenges industrial cybersecurity will soon be (or already is) facing, and what to expect from cybercriminals in 2021.
05 November 2020
Attacks on industrial enterprises using RMS and TeamViewer: new dataThe attacks use remote administration utilities whose graphical user interface is hidden by the malware, enabling the attackers to control the infected system without the user’s knowledge.
19 October 2020
Practical example of fuzzing OPC UA applicationsWe continue to describe our approaches to searching for vulnerabilities in industrial systems based on the OPC UA protocol. In this article, we examine new techniques that can be used to search for memory corruption vulnerabilities if the source code is available. We also discuss an example of fuzzing using libfuzzer.
13 October 2020
What it feels like for a turbineThe goal of the article is to raise awareness on security of Distributed Control Systems (DCS), propose a methodology for assessment, and a remediation strategy. Defenders are always behind attackers, and this publication is trying to balance things out.
08 October 2020
MontysThree: Industrial espionage with steganography and a Russian accent on both sidesIn Summer 2020 we uncovered a previously unknown multi-module C++ toolset used in highly targeted industrial espionage attacks dating back to 2018.
24 September 2020
Threat landscape for industrial automation systems. H1 2020The percentage of computers attacked globally is decreasing. At the same time, threats are becoming more localized, more focused, and, as a result, more diverse and sophisticated.
15 September 2020
The State of Industrial Cybersecurity 2020In 2020 ARC Advisory Group on behalf of Kaspersky conducted a survey on the state of industrial cybersecurity, as well as the current priorities and challenges of industrial organizations. More than 330 industrial companies and organizations across the globe were surveyed online and 10 industry representatives were interviewed at trade fairs and ARC forums worldwide.
31 August 2020
Cyberthreats for ICS in Energy in Europe. Q1 2020In Q1 2020 in Europe, Kaspersky products were triggered on 20.4% of ICS computers in the energy sector. A total of 1,485 malware modifications from 633 different families were blocked.
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