Security News > 2020 > January > Fake Factory Experiment Illustrates Attackers' Tactics

The researchers used a network of honeypots to monitor network traffic and keep tabs on the attackers and how they attempted to take advantage of security flaws within the fake industrial environment, Trend Micro explains in a new report.

"Advanced attackers could be very picky in choosing systems they wanted to compromise and would check every small detail that they could before conducting an attack," the report notes.

Trend Micro researchers spent two months constructing the virtual factory and setting up the network of honeypots to capture the activity of the attackers, according to the report.

The second ransomware attack took place in October, with the attackers using the Phobos, strain, which resembles Crysis, according to the report.

While the Trend Micro researchers note that attackers are getting better at probing and finding weaknesses within industrial control systems, they say that many of the security flaws incorporated into the fake factory would not be present during real-world situations.

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