Stuxnet's First Five Victims Provided Path to Natanz

Stuxnet’s first five victims were a carefully crafted list of targets that ultimately provided the attackers with the road map they needed to get inside a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, Iran and disrupt the country’s nuclear program. Cobbled together from clues left behind by the infamous...

USB Malware Targeting Siemens Control Software (Update C)

Overview VirusBlokAda, an antivirus vendor based in Belarus, announcedVirusBlokAda, http://www.anti-virus.by/en/tempo.shtml, website last visited July 15, 2010. the discovery of malware that uses a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Windows processing of shortcut files. The malware utilizes this...

CVE-2013-2741

importbuddy.php in the BackupBuddy plugin 1.3.4, 2.1.4, 2.2.25, 2.2.28, and 2.2.4 for WordPress does not require that authentication be enabled, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, or overwrite or delete files, via vectors involving a 1 direct request, 2 step=1 request,...

PT-2015-10: Privilege Gaining in Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal)

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Privilege Gaining vulnerability in Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal. Vulnerability exists in TIA Portal due to improper integrity protection of project-file fields containing user’s privileges, which allows attackers to modify user...

Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 DLL Vulnerability

Overview Siemens has released a software update for a DLL hijacking vulnerability in SIMATIC STEP 7 and SIMATIC PCS 7 software. Previous versions of SIMATIC STEP 7 and PCS 7 allowed the loading of malicious DLL files into the STEP 7 project folder that can be used to attack the system on which ST...

Dillon Beresford Talked Siemens Vulnerabilities

NSS researcher Dillon Beresford continued his research into the security of SCADA and industrial control systems with a talk on vulnerabilities in Siemens Step 7 programmable logic controllers. Read more: Black Hat: Remote DOS, Backdoor, Easter Egg Among Newly Discovered Siemens Holes...