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Israel Says Hackers Targeted SCADA Systems at Water Facilities
2020-04-27 12:27

The Israeli government has issued an alert to organizations in the water sector following a series of cyberattacks aimed at water facilities. According to an alert published by Israel's National Cyber Directorate, the attacks targeted supervisory control and data acquisition systems at wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations and sewage facilities.

COVID-Themed Lures Target SCADA Sectors With Data Stealing Malware
2020-04-20 03:58

A new malware campaign has been found using coronavirus-themed lures to strike government and energy sectors in Azerbaijan with remote access trojans capable of exfiltrating sensitive documents, keystrokes, passwords, and even images from the webcam. According to the researchers, the malware specifically targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems in the energy industry, such as wind turbine systems, whose identities are currently not known.

Hackers Targeting Azerbaijan Show Interest in SCADA Systems
2020-04-17 18:52

A threat actor that has been spotted targeting Azerbaijan has shown an interest in the energy sector, specifically SCADA systems related to wind turbines, Cisco's Talos threat intelligence and research group reports. According to Talos, the hackers appear to be interested in the energy sector and industrial control systems.

Advanced ICS/SCADA Hacking Training Offered at SecurityWeek's 2019 ICS Cyber Security Conference
2019-10-02 12:20

SecurityWeek has announced that it will offer an Advanced ICS/SCADA Hacking Training program at its 2019 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cyber Security Conference, which takes place October 21-24...

Critical vulnerabilities uncovered in Danfoss SCADA product, patch now!
2019-09-05 04:30

Risk Based Security uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in the AK-EM 800 product from SCADA vendor Danfoss. The discovered vulnerabilities Researchers found two critical vulnerabilities. One is...

Week in review: SD-WAN deployment, security DevOps, a new taxonomy for SCADA attacks
2019-01-20 18:07

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Compromised ad company serves Magecart skimming code to hundreds of websites The attackers managed to compromise...

A new taxonomy for SCADA attacks
2019-01-15 07:30

Attacks aimed at SCADA networks are still much rarer than those targeting IT networks, but the number is slowly rising. And, according to Radiflow CTO Yehonatan Kfir, there’s no time like the...

Tatsoft releases platform for SCADA and beyond
2018-10-04 01:30

Tatsoft brings a new open platform to SCADA, IIoT and real-time system developers by releasing FactoryStudio 8.1, the latest version of its .NET-to-the-core application development platform....

SCADA vulnerabilities in ICS architectures
2018-07-26 15:37

A major challenge in industrial control system architecture involves the dual nature of its underlying technologies. That is, a typical ICS component must have the capability to exchange...

AVEVA Patches Critical Flaws in HMI/SCADA Tools Following Schneider Merger
2018-07-24 16:00

UK-based industrial software company AVEVA has patched two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities discovered by researchers in its InTouch and InduSoft development tools. read more