Operation Red October : Cyber Espionage campaign against many Governments

A new sensational discovered has been announced by Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team result of an investigation after several attacks hit computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies. A new large scale cyber-espionage operation has been discovered, named Re...

Schneider Electric MiCOM S1 Studio Improper Authorization Vulnerability

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability affecting the Schneider Electric MiCOM S1 Studio Software. Independent researcher Michael Toecker of Digital Bond has identified an improper authorization vulnerability in the MiCOM S1 Studio Software using the Microsoft Attac...

Energy Manufacturer Also Victimized by IE Zero Day in Watering Hole Attack

This week’s watering hole attack exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer was not limited to the influential Council on Foreign Relations site. A Metasploit contributor said an energy manufacturer’s website has been serving malware related to the attack since September. Researcher...

ENISA Outlines Security Regulations for EU Smart Grid Expansion

The European Union has set a series of ambitious goals for itself: by 2020, the 27 member states expect to collectively use 20 percent renewable energy, reduce CO2 emissions by 20 percent, and increase energy efficiency by 20 percent. In order to accomplish these goals, Europe will need to perfor...

Kaspersky Lab Developing Secure Operating System for SCADA

Eugene Kaspersky is working with his engineers at Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab to create a secure-by-design OS for ICS. In an interview Kaspersky said " It's true no one else ever tried to make a secure operating system. This may sound weird because of the many efforts Microsoft, Apple and...

SCADA Hacking : Exploit released to Hack Solar Energy Plants

ICS-CERT - Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team has released the Advisory titled ICS-ALERT-12-284-01 - Sinapsi eSolar Light Multiple Vulnerabilities. They Report about report multiple vulnerabilities with proof-of-concept PoC exploit code that affecting the Sinapsi eSolar Ligh...

I-GEN opLYNX Central Authentication Bypass

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability that impacts the i-GEN opLYNX Central software. Exploitation of this vulnerability would allow partial leakage of information and access to system settings. Independent researcher Anthony Cicalla has identified an authenticati...

New FERC Cybersecurity Office Has Lofty Oversight and Outreach Goals

When it comes to cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, there are generally more questions than answers. And for the last 10 months or so, the volume of concern and uncertainty has ramped up, largely because there’s little in the way of productive information sharing on threats, a serious lac...

Carlo Gavazzi EOS Box Multiple Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for multiple vulnerabilities that impact the Carlo Gavazzi EOS-Box Photovoltaic Monitoring System. Carlo Gavazzi has identified two vulnerabilities in the Carlo Gavazzi EOS-Box Photovoltaic Monitoring System. Carlo Gavazzi has produced a firmware...

Operation Aurora - Other Zero-Day Attacks targeting finance and Energy

The infamous Aurora Trojan horse is just one of many attacks launched by the same group of malware authors over the past three years, according to researchers at Symantec. Security researchers with Symantec have issued a report outlining the techniques used by the so-called "Edgewood" hacking...

'Elderwood' Crew, Tied to Google Aurora Attack, Targeting Defense, Energy, Finance Companies

UPDATE–The same team that attacked Google in the Aurora campaign in 2009 is still active and has been conducting a long-term campaign targeting defense contractors, financial services companies, energy companies, human rights organizations and government agencies using a seemingly inexhaustible...

Malware Attack on 2nd Largest Liquefied Natural Gas Producer

Reports have surfaced that liquified natural gas LNG producer RasGas, based in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar, has been struck by an unidentified virus, this time shutting down its website and email servers. The malware, however, did not affect the company's operational computers that control t...

Saudi Aramco Oil Producer's 30,000 workstations victim of Cyber Attack

Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. Immediately after the Aug. 15 attack, the company announced it had cut off its electronic systems from outside access to...

Sinapsi Devices Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to the alert titled ICS-ALERT-12-284-01—Sinapsi eSolar Light Vulnerabilities that was published October 10, 2012. Independent researchers Roberto Paleari and Ivan Speziale identified four vulnerabilities and released proof-of-concept exploit code for the...

ABB AC500 PLC Webserver CoDeSys Vulnerability

Overview ICS-CERT has been notified of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ABB AC500 PLC Webserver application. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a denial of service DoS, affecting the availability of the service. This vulnerability is related to ICS-CERT Advisory,...

Shamoon Malware : Permanently wiping data from Energy Industry Computers

Malware researchers have uncovered an attack targeting an organization in the energy industry that attempts to wreak havoc by permanently wiping data from an infected computer's hard drive and rendering the machine unusable. Symantec would not name the victimized firm, and so far has seen the...

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department Andrew James Miller, a 23-year-old resident of Devon, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of computer fraud, and one count of access device fraud, according to a statement issued by the...

Pennsylvania Man Indicted For Hack of Department of Energy Network

A Pennsylvania man was arrested yesterday after a Massachusetts grand jury issued a four-count indictment alleging that he hacked into computer networks belonging to the U.S. Department of Energy DoE and the University of Massachusetts and tried to sell access to a DoE supercomputer for $50,000 t...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...

Cyber Attacks on gas pipeline linked to China

Cyber Attacks on gas pipeline linked to China The spear-phishing attacks laying siege to networks in the natural gas pipeline industry apparently are being carried out by the same group that hacked RSA security last year. The attacks, which have been occurring since late this past March, have...