Weekly Executive Summary for Week of January 20, 2017
Hacking Confirmed as Cause of Ukraine Power Plant Outage On the night of December 17, 2016, Ukraine’s national power company Ukrenergo experienced a power outage that lasted for about an hour in ...
Windows Trojan Targets Russian Crane Manufacturers
Source: http://www.securityweek.com/new-trojan-used-spy-russian-crane-manufacturers, http://news.drweb.com/news/?i=10306&lng=en(SecurityWeek, Doctor Web) A Windows Trojan dubbed BackDoor.Crane ...
Cyber Attack on German Nuclear Power Plant
Source: http://www.securityweek.com/german-nuke-plant-hit-disruptive-cyber-attack-report, http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36158606(SecurityWeek, BBC News) PCs were infected with several ...
Israeli Startup Reveals it’s Platform That Provides Broad Support for ICS and OT environments
Source: http://www.securityweek.com/claroty-emerges-stealth-promising-extreme-visibility-industrial-networks (Security Week) An Israeli startup called ‘Claroty’ has come forth from stealth ...
Threat Group “Operation Ghoul” Targets Industrial Sectors Around the Globe
Source: http://www.securityweek.com/organizations-30-countries-targeted-operation-ghoul , ...
Internet Scan Reveals More Than 100 Critical Infrastructures Exposed Online
Source: https://threatpost.com/scan-reveals-hydropower-plants-other-critical-infrastructure-exposed-online/119316/ In the Fall of 2015 researchers at Wache of Berlin conducted an Internet scan of ...
Malware Offers Backdoor to Critical Infrastructure Targets
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/07/13/malware-backdoor-critical-infrastructure-targets/, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/12/scada_malware/ Security researchers at SentinelOne ...
Verizon Investigation: Water Treatment Plant Hacked
Resources: http://news.softpedia.com/news/hackers-modify-water-treatment-parameters-by-accident-502043.shtml ...
DHS Warning about Ukrainian Electric Grid Attack
Posted March 9, 2016 Source: https://fcw.com/articles/2016/03/09/rockwell-ukraine-grid.aspx Further ...
BlackEnergy Trojan Used in Attack Against Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure
Source: http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/blackenergy-used-as-a-cyber-weapon-against-ukrainian-critical-infrastructure/ The trojan known as BlackEnergy became well known in 2008 when state ...