Security News > 2020 > January > Researchers create OT honeypot, attract exploits and fraud

Trend Micro announced the results of research featuring a honeypot imitating an industrial factory.

The highly sophisticated Operational Technology honeypot attracted fraud and financially motivated exploits.

The honeypot was compromised for cryptocurrency mining, targeted by two separate ransomware attacks, and used for consumer fraud.

To better understand the attacks targeting ICS environments, Trend Micro Research created a highly realistic, industrial prototyping company.

The honeypot consisted of real ICS hardware and a mix of physical hosts and virtual machines to run the factory, which included several programmable logic controllers, human machine interfaces, separate robotic and engineering workstations and a file server.

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