New ZionSiphon Malware Discovered Targeting Israeli Water Systems

Researchers at Darktrace have identified ZionSiphon, a new malware targeting Israeli water treatment plants. Learn how this OT-focused…...

Hydrosystem Control System 日志信息泄露漏洞

Hydrosystem Control System is an industrial water treatment and fluid control monitoring system developed by the American company Hydrosystem. Versions of Hydrosystem Control System prior to 9.8.5 contained a log information leakage vulnerability. This vulnerability stemmed from the storage of...

Cyber-Resilient Digital Twins: Discriminating Attacks for Safe Critical Infrastructure Control

Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems ICPS face growing threats from cyber-attacks that exploit sensor and control vulnerabilities. Digital Twin DT technology can detect anomalies via predictive modelling, but current methods cannot distinguish attack types and often rely on costly full-system...

Opportunistic Pro-Russia Hacktivists Attack US and Global Critical Infrastructure

CISA, in partnership with Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, and other international partners published a joint cybersecurity advisory, Pro-Russia Hacktivists Create...

Design and Detection of Covert Man-In-The-Middle Cyberattacks on Water Treatment Plants

Cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructures, such as water treatment facilities, represent significant threats to public health, safety, and the environment. This paper introduces a systematic approach for modeling and assessing covert man-in-the-middle MitM attacks that leverage system...

A Cyber-Twin Based Honeypot for Gathering Threat Intelligence

Critical Infrastructure CI is prone to cyberattacks. Several techniques have been developed to protect CI against such attacks. In this work, we describe a honeypot based on a cyber twin for a water treatment plant. The honeypot is intended to serve as a realistic replica of a water treatment pla...

Attack Pattern Mining to Discover Hidden Threats to Industrial Control Systems

This work focuses on validation of attack pattern mining in the context of Industrial Control System ICS security. A comprehensive security assessment of an ICS requires generating a large and variety of attack patterns. For this purpose we have proposed a data driven technique to generate attack...

Adversarial Sample Generation for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems

Machine learning ML-based intrusion detection systems IDS are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. It is crucial for an IDS to learn to recognize adversarial examples before malicious entities exploit them. In this paper, we generated adversarial samples using the Jacobian Saliency Map Attack JSMA...

GiBy: a Giant-Step Baby-Step Classifier for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems

The continuous monitoring of the interactions between cyber-physical components of any industrial control system ICS is required to secure automation of the system controls, and to guarantee plant processes are fail-safe and remain in an acceptably safe state. Safety is achieved by managing...

Technician Indicted for Hacking California Water Treatment Facility

By Deeba Ahmed The jury has charged Rambler Gallo with one count of transmitting a program, information, code, and command to cause damage to a protected computer. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Technician Indicted for Hacking California Water Treatment Facility...

New research shows IoT and OT innovation is critical to business but comes with significant risks

The need for much improved IoT and operational technology OT cybersecurity became clearer this year with recent attacks on network devices,1 surveillance systems,2 an oil pipeline,3 and a water treatment facility,4 to name a few examples. To better understand the challenges customers are facing,...

New research shows IoT and OT innovation is critical to business but comes with significant risks

The need for much improved IoT and operational technology OT cybersecurity became clearer this year with recent attacks on network devices,1 surveillance systems,2 an oil pipeline,3 and a water treatment facility,4 to name a few examples. To better understand the challenges customers are facing,...

Ransomware Attacks against Water Treatment Plants

According to a report from CISA last week, there were three ransomware attacks against water treatment plants last year. WWS Sector cyber intrusions from 2019 to early 2021 include: In August 2021, malicious cyber actors used Ghost variant ransomware against a California-based WWS facility. The...

Disaster planning with Lesley Carhart, and the slim chance of a critical infrastructure “big one”: Lock and Code S02E14

The 2021 attacks on two water treatment facilities in the US—combined with ransomware attacks on an oil and gas supplier and a meat and poultry distributor—could lead most people to believe that a critical infrastructure “big one” is coming. But, as Lesley Carhart, principal threat hunter with...

How Cyber Safe is Your Drinking Water Supply?

Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of the 52,000 separate drinking water systems in the United States still havent inventoried some or any of their informatio...

Attack against Florida Water Treatment Facility

A water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, was attacked last Friday. The attacker took control of one of the systems, and increased the amount of sodium hydroxide -- thats lye -- by a factor of 100. This could have been fatal to people living downstream, if an alert operator hadnt noticed the...

Compromise of U.S. Water Treatment Facility

Summary On February 5, 2021, unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system at a U.S. drinking water treatment facility. The unidentified actors used the SCADA system’s software to increase the amount of sodium hydroxide, also...

Poor Password Security Led to Recent Water Treatment Facility Hack

New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof critical infrastructure environments. The breach involved an unsuccessful attempt on the part of an adversary to...

Compromise of U.S. Water Treatment Facility

In response to recent events where unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system at a U.S. drinking water treatment facility, CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Multi-State...

Hackers try to poison Florida City’s drinking water

The FBI, the Secret Service, and the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office are currently investigating an attempted poisoning of a city by an individual or group of hackers that occurred Friday last week. If it hadnt been caught in time, at least 15,000 people could have been affected. In a Monday pres...