12 March 2018
Somebody’s watching! When cameras are more than just ‘smart’The researchers at Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT decided to check the popular smart camera to see how well protected it is against cyber abuses.
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28 February 2018
IoT hack: how to break a smart home… againThere can never be too many IoT gadgets – that’s what people usually think when buying yet another connected device with advanced functionality. From our perspective, we also think there can’t be too many IoT investigations.
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.
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05 June 2018
Critical vulnerability in Yokogawa STARDOM controllersHardcoded credentials have been identified in Yokogawa STARDOM controllers, potentially leading to remote execution of arbitrary code on affected devices
29 May 2018
Multiple vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric Floating License ManagerDangerous vulnerabilities have been identified in the Schneider Electric Floating License Manager platform.
28 May 2018
VPNFilter malware can be used to detect SCADA equipmentCisco Talos researchers have detected new malware, which has been dubbed VPNFilter. To date, the malware has infected at least 500,000 routers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices in 54 countries of the world.
28 May 2018
Serious vulnerabilities in TELEM-GW6/GWM data concentratorsVulnerabilities in Martem TELEM-GW6/GWM data concentrators could enable remote attackers to gain control of the industrial process, cause denial of service and execute arbitrary code
23 May 2018
Serious vulnerability fixed in PACSystems industrial controllersA serious improper data validation vulnerability has been closed in some models of PACSystems industrial controllers. Exploitation of the vulnerability could cause affected devices to malfunction
23 May 2018
Dangerous vulnerabilities identified in FL SWITCH industrial Ethernet switchesCritical vulnerabilities have been identified in FL SWITCH series 3xxx, 4xxx and 48xxx industrial Ethernet switches. Updating the firmware of the switches to version 1.34 or higher is recommended to eliminate these vulnerabilities
22 May 2018
OPC Foundation Consortium comments on Kaspersky Lab’s OPC UA security analysis reportThe OPC Foundation has published an official response to Kaspersky Lab’s analysis
18 May 2018
DoS vulnerability in SIMATIC S7-400 controllersA hardware vulnerability in SIMATIC S7-400 CPUs could cause denial-of-service conditions of affected PLCs. Exploitation of the vulnerability does not require user interaction or any privileges
17 May 2018
Multiple vulnerabilities closed in Advantech WebAccessMultiple serious vulnerabilities have been closed in Advantech’s WebAccess SCADA/HMI solution. Their exploitation could lead to sensitive information disclosure, arbitrary code execution and file deletion.
26 April 2018
Vulnerabilities in Advantech WebAccess HMI DesignerDangerous vulnerabilities have been identified in Advantech WebAccess HMI Designer. Their exploitation could lead to remote code execution
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