Rockwell Advises Disconnecting Internet-Facing ICS Devices Amid Cyber Threats

Rockwell Automation is urging its customers to disconnect all industrial control systems ICSs not meant to be connected to the public-facing internet to mitigate unauthorized or malicious cyber activity. The company said it's issuing the advisory due to "heightened geopolitical tensions and...

CVE-2020-10291

Visual Components owned by KUKA is a robotic simulator that allows simulating factories and robots in order toimprove planning and decision-making processes. Visual Components software requires a special license which can beobtained from a network license server. The network license server binds ...

CVE-2020-10291 RVD#3336: System information disclosure without authentication on KUKA simulators

Visual Components owned by KUKA is a robotic simulator that allows simulating factories and robots in order toimprove planning and decision-making processes. Visual Components software requires a special license which can beobtained from a network license server. The network license server binds ...

Wind River VXWorks TCP Predictability Vulnerability in ICS Devices (Update B)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-15-169-01A Wind River VxWorks TCP Predictability Vulnerability in ICS Devices that was published November 5, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Raheem Beyah, David Formby, and San Shin Jung of Georgia Tech, via a...

Attacks on SCADA, ICS Honeypots Modified Critical Operations

With antiquated gear running the country’s industrial control systems that oversee critical infrastructure, it’s no shock attackers targeting SCADA networks do their fair share of reconnaissance looking for weak spots in that equipment. A researcher decided to put that theory to a practical test...

Password Cracker Targets Siemens S7 PLCs

Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers, the same PLC family exploited by the Stuxnet malware, are in the crosshairs of a password-cracking tool that is capable of stealing credentials from industrial control systems. PLCs are microprocessors that automate mechanical processes inside factories,...