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Hackers breach US water facility via exposed Unitronics PLCs

CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency) is warning that threat actors breached a U.S. water facility by hacking into Unitronics programmable logic controllers (PLCs) exposed online.
- Bill Toulas
- November 29, 2023
- 01:07 PM
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Industrial PLCs worldwide impacted by CODESYS V3 RCE flaws

Millions of PLC (programmable logic controllers) used in industrial environments worldwide are at risk to 15 vulnerabilities in the CODESYS V3 software development kit, allowing remote code execution (RCE) and denial of service (DoS) attacks.
- Bill Toulas
- August 11, 2023
- 10:33 AM
- 0
Password recovery tool infects industrial systems with Sality malware

A threat actor is infecting industrial control systems (ICS) to create a botnet through password "cracking" software for programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
- Bill Toulas
- July 15, 2022
- 01:46 PM
- 0
Bluetooth BrakTooth bugs could affect billions of devices

Vulnerabilities collectively referred to as BrakTooth are affecting Bluetooth stacks implemented on system-on-a-chip (SoC) circuits from over a dozen vendors.
- Ionut Ilascu
- September 02, 2021
- 07:22 PM
- 0
ClearEnergy - The "In The Wild" SCADA Ransomware Attacks That Never Existed

A mini-controversy broke out this week in the infosec community after cyber-security firm CRITIFENCE led journalists and other security experts to believe that they've detected in-the-wild attacks with a new ransomware called ClearEnergy, specialized in targeting ICS/SCADA industrial equipment.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- April 07, 2017
- 10:37 AM
- 0
Researchers Create PoC Ransomware That Targets ICS/SCADA Systems

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) have created a proof-of-concept ransomware strain named LogicLocker that can alter programmable logic controller (PLC) parameters. The research team presented their work yesterday, at the RSA cyber-security conference in San Francisco.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- February 14, 2017
- 05:11 AM
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Hackers breach US water facility via exposed Unitronics PLCs

Industrial PLCs worldwide impacted by CODESYS V3 RCE flaws

Password recovery tool infects industrial systems with Sality malware

Bluetooth BrakTooth bugs could affect billions of devices

ClearEnergy - The "In The Wild" SCADA Ransomware Attacks That Never Existed

Researchers Create PoC Ransomware That Targets ICS/SCADA Systems