We decided to study the live threats to building-based automation systems and to see what malware their owners encountered in the first six months of 2019. Read Full Article
Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H2 2018
Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT team publishes the findings of its research on the threat landscape for industrial automation systems conducted during the second half of 2018. Read Full Article
Threats posed by using RATs in ICS
While conducting audits, penetration tests and incident investigations, we have often come across legitimate remote administration tools (RAT) for PCs installed on operational technology (OT) networks of industrial enterprises. In a number of incidents that we have investigated, threat actors had used RATs to attack industrial organizations. Read Full Article
Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2018
In this report, Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT publishes the findings of its research on the threat landscape for industrial automation systems conducted during the first half of 2018. Read Full Article
Attacks on industrial enterprises using RMS and TeamViewer
Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT has identified a new wave of phishing emails with malicious attachments targeting primarily companies and organizations that are, in one way or another, associated with industrial production. Read Full Article
OPC UA security analysis
This article discusses our project that involved searching for vulnerabilities in implementations of the OPC UA protocol. We hope to draw the attention of vendors that develop software for industrial automation systems and the industrial IoT to problems associated with using such widely available technologies. Read Full Article
Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti: attacks on servers
This report by Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT presents information on identified servers that have been infected and used by the Energetic Bear/Crouching Yeti group. The report also includes the findings of an analysis of several webservers compromised by the group during 2016 and in early 2017. Read Full Article
Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H2 2017
Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT publishes the findings of its research on the threat landscape for industrial automation systems conducted during the second half of 2017. The main objective of these publications is to provide information support to incident response teams, enterprise information security staff and researchers in the area of industrial facility security. Read Full Article
A silver bullet for the attacker
We confront hundreds of thousands of new threats every day and we can see that threat actors are on a constant lookout for new attack opportunities. According to our research, connecting a software license management token to a computer may open a hidden remote access channel for an attacker. Read Full Article
Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2017
Kaspersky Lab Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT) publishes the results of its research on the threat landscape for industrial automation systems for the first six months of 2017. Read Full Article