Critical Infrastructure at Risk from New Vulnerabilities Found in Wireless IIoT Devices

A set of 38 security vulnerabilities has been uncovered in wireless industrial internet of things IIoT devices from four different vendors that could pose a significant attack surface for threat actors looking to exploit operational technology OT environments. "Threat actors can exploit...

New Evil PLC Attack Weaponizes PLCs to Breach OT and Enterprise Networks

Cybersecurity researchers have elaborated a novel attack technique that weaponizes programmable logic controllers PLCs to gain an initial foothold in engineering workstations and subsequently invade the operational technology OT networks. Dubbed "Evil PLC" attack by industrial security firm...