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Russian Hackers Sandworm Cause Power Outage in Ukraine Amidst Missile Strikes

By Newsroom β€” November 10th 2023 at 12:22
The notorious Russian hackers known asΒ SandwormΒ targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google's Mandiant, which described the hack as a "multi-event cyber attack" leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS). "The actor first used OT-level living-off-the-land (LotL) techniques to
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Industrial Control Systems Vulnerabilities Soar: Over One-Third Unpatched in 2023

By THN β€” August 2nd 2023 at 12:55
About 34% of security vulnerabilities impacting industrial control systems (ICSs) that were reported in the first half of 2023 have no patch or remediation, registering a significant increase from 13% the previous year. According to data compiled by SynSaber, a total of 670 ICS product flaws were reported via the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the first half of
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China's Stealthy Hackers Infiltrate U.S. and Guam Critical Infrastructure Undetected

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” May 25th 2023 at 08:28
A stealthy China-based group managed to establish a persistent foothold into critical infrastructure organizations in the U.S. and Guam without being detected,Β MicrosoftΒ andΒ the "Five Eyes" nationsΒ said on Wednesday. The tech giant's threat intelligence team is tracking the activity, which includes post-compromise credential access and network system discovery, under the nameΒ Volt Typhoon. The
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CISA Warns of Flaws in Siemens, GE Digital, and Contec Industrial Control Systems

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” January 18th 2023 at 05:56
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) hasΒ publishedΒ four Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories, calling out several security flaws affecting products from Siemens, GE Digital, and Contec. The most critical of the issues have been identified in Siemens SINEC INS that could lead to remote code execution via a path traversal flaw (CVE-2022-45092, CVSS score: 9.9)
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3 New Vulnerabilities Affect OT Products from German Companies Festo and CODESYS

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” November 30th 2022 at 07:21
Researchers have disclosed details of three new security vulnerabilities affecting operational technology (OT) products from CODESYS and Festo that could lead to source code tampering and denial-of-service (DoS). The vulnerabilities, reported by Forescout Vedere Labs, are the latest in a long list of flaws collectively tracked under the nameΒ OT:ICEFALL. "These issues exemplify either an
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Critical Remote Hack Flaws Found in Dataprobe's Power Distribution Units

By Ravie Lakshmanan β€” September 21st 2022 at 05:24
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released an industrial control systems (ICS) advisory warning of seven security flaws in Dataprobe's iBoot-PDU power distribution unit product, mostly used inΒ industrial environments and data centers. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution on the Dataprobe
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