U.S. Pipeline Disrupted by Ransomware Attack

A ransomware attack has hit a natural gas compression facility in the U.S., the feds have warned. The attack resulted in a two-day pipeline shutdown as the unnamed victim worked to bring systems back online from backups. The attackers were able penetrate the IT portion of the facility’s network,...

Partner Perspectives: Protecting Industrial Control Systems with Verve Industrial’s Endpoint Management and Carbon Black App Control

Imagine waking up in the morning, flipping on your light switch and nothing happens. The natural human response is to flip the switch a few more times before realizing something is wrong. You jump out of bed and notice the smart coffeemaker has not brewed a fresh cup of coffee that you’ve come to...

CVE-2019-15126 aka Kr00k

An issue was discovered on Broadcom Wi-Fi client devices. Specifically timed and handcrafted traffic can cause internal errors related to state transitions in a WLAN device that lead to improper layer 2 Wi-Fi encryption with a consequent possibility of information disclosure over the air for a...

Pen Testing Ships. A year in review

Partially driven by the upcoming inclusion of Cyber Security by the IMO International Maritime Organisation, 2019 was a really busy year for maritime security testing at PTP. What can we all learn from a year of evaluating the security of ships? We’ve been involved in all sorts of ship testing,...

ASSURE Aviation Cyber Security Testing

We've long been supporters and champions of a formalised approach to Aviation Cyber Security Testing. Our research and blogging has taken us on an interesting journey regarding airside and landside security, mapping attack surfaces and explaining how systems work and interact. Speaking and...

harfbuzz:hb-subset-fuzzer: Crash in OT::SBIXGlyph::copy

Project: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz.git Detailed Report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5741295280848896 Project: harfbuzz Fuzzing Engine: libFuzzer Fuzz Target: hb-subset-fuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasani386harfbuzz Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN READ Crash Address: 0x607d5f2c...

The New Year Calls for a Change in the OT Industry’s State of Security

In 2014, a Western European steel mill suffered serious damage from a phishing attack that penetrated its IT and Operational Technology OT networks the software and hardware dedicated to monitoring and controlling physical devices where attackers gained control of plant equipment. In 2018, 74% of...

The FireEye Approach to Operational Technology Security

Today FireEye launches the Cyber Physical Threat Intelligence subscription, which provides cyber security professionals with unmatched context, data and actionable analysis on threats and risk to cyber physical systems. In light of this release, we thought it would be helpful to explain FireEye’s...

Nuclear Satcoms

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident in 2011 has led to safety changes that may have an interesting knock-on effect on reactor security. Loss of telemetry during the flooding, as a result of the subsequent loss of power, made assessment of the incident hard to manage. Critical data about the...

Schneider-electric Somachine Improper Input Validation

A Environment CWE-2 vulnerability exists in SoMachine Basic, all versions, and Modicon M221all references, all versions prior to firmware V1.10.0.0 which could cause remote launch of SoMachine Basic when sending crafted ethernet message. File data ot500329.nasl...

Dell OT Asset Information

This plugin returns information for a Dell asset in an OT environment. File data ot500002.nasl...

Fortinet OT Asset Information

This plugin returns information for a Fortinet asset in an OT environment. File data ot500005.nasl...

The FireEye OT-CSIO: An Ontology to Understand, Cross-Compare, and Assess Operational Technology Cyber Security Incidents

The FireEye Operational Technology Cyber Security Incident Ontology OT-CSIO While the number of threats to operational technology OT have significantly increased since the discovery of Stuxnet – driven by factors such as the growing convergence with information technology IT networks and the...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in MetInfo ot***_in***.php Page

MetInfo is an enterprise website management system with PHP+Mysql architecture. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the MetInfo otin.php page, which can be exploited by an attacker to obtain sensitive information from the database...

Pwning a Siemens Scalance ICS switch through ARM reversing

We’ve been working in industrial control systems security for a long time. Several of the team here used to work in OT control rooms or support SCADA environments. Whilst pen testing a ship control system, we noticed a heavy reliance on Siemens Scalance industrial ethernet switches, so bought a...

How Will Companies Deploy Industrial IoT Security Solutions?

Industrial IoT IIoT devices will comprise the majority of the billions of IoT devices deployed over the next decade. How will the information security market meet this onslaught of technology? The consumer market is not a useful guide for this analysis. Consumers buy in small quantities and choos...

openthread/ip6-send-fuzzer: Stack-use-after-return in ot::MeshCoP::ChannelMaskEntryBase::GetChannelPage

Project: https://github.com/openthread/openthread.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5153373483958272 Project: openthread Fuzzer: libFuzzeropenthreadip6-send-fuzzer Fuzz target binary: ip6-send-fuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerasanopenthread Platform Id: linux Crash Type:...

RSA Conference 2019: Operational Technology Widens Supply Chain Attack Surfaces

SAN FRANCISCO – Today’s supply chain has evolved, with operational technology OT used in factories increasingly becoming connected and converging with IT systems — introducing new attack vectors. This new reality is vital for companies to understand in the context of risk, according to Dawn...

2019 and Beyond: The (Expanded) RSAC Advisory Board Weighs in on What’s Next: Pt. 2

Our first 2019 predictions post from the RSA Conference Advisory Board was not all sunshine and roses — cautious optimism was tabled by the acknowledged distance we must still travel as an industry — and our second set of predictions does not belie that theme. This trepidation does not mean we’re...

2019: The Year Ahead in Cybersecurity

2018 may have been filled with cybersecurity incidents, but the infosec community is gearing up for what the New Year will bring. From emerging cyber-threat attacks surfaces, new APT groups, and more regulations around data privacy, 2019 is set to be another big year in the cybersecurity space...