Computer Weekly

Incontroller ICS malware has ‘rare, dangerous’ capabilities, says Mandiant

A set of novel industrial control system (ICS)-oriented attack tools, dubbed Incontroller by researchers from Mandiant and Schneider Electric, poses a critical risk to organisations using the ...
Dark Reading

Novel ICS Malware Sabotaged Water-Heating Services in Ukraine

Researchers have tied a January 2024 attack that disrupted heating services in some 600 apartment buildings in Lviv, Ukraine, during sub-zero temperatures to a dangerous new piece of malware designed ...
Nextgov

ICS-CERT analyzing grid-crippling malware

ICS-CERT is teasing out signatures of a new family of malware to help identify code that targets critical infrastructure. A federal team is analyzing the malware that recently crippled Ukraine’s power ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Strategies For Defense Against Fuxnet ICS Malware

According to recent cybersecurity media reports, a new destructive ICS malware named Fuxnet has been discovered. This incident is allegedly linked to the Blackjack hacker group, which is associated ...
Threat Post

ICS Malware Found on Vendors’ Update Installers

The Havex RAT has infected the software update installers of three known industrial control system vendors, according to an advisory for ICS-CERT. Malware targeting industrial control systems has ...
Power Engineering

The threat ICS malware poses to the electric power sector

Shortly before Christmas in 2015 the power grid in Ukraine suffered a series of outages that impacted roughly a quarter of a million consumers and lasted several hours.[1] Later, in 2017 the same ...
Bleeping Computer

New GreyEnergy Malware Targets ICS, Tied with BlackEnergy and TeleBots

A new advanced threat actor is now on the public map of adversaries that target systems in the critical infrastructure sector. The name is GreyEnergy and it shows similarities with the BlackEnergy ...
Dark Reading

Air-Gapped ICS Systems Targeted by Sophisticated Malware

Security teams in industrial control systems (ICS) environments are fighting a worm that gets past air-gapped defenses. Researchers from Kaspersky ICS-CERT have been investigating cyberattacks against ...
CSOonline

Researchers find new ICS malware toolkit designed to cause electric power outages

Over the past few years state-sponsored attackers have been ramping up their capabilities of hitting critical infrastructure like power grids to cause serious disruptions. A new addition to this ...
CSOonline

Critical Infrastructure Malware Infections: From ICS-CERT report to SCADA Strangelove

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Emergency Response Team for Industrial Control Systems (ICS-CERT) reported that during the fiscal year 2012, it “responded to 198 cyber incidents.” Forty ...