Abhisam informs us that its Industrial Cybersecurity e-learning course is now available online. This course can be taken on a new e-learning portal, prettygoodcourses.com, which has a range of free and paid courses. More courses are being added every week. There are free courses, like the one on Hydrogen Sulfide and other popular paid ones … Read more
Aug 30, 2016– ICS-CERT has informed that a new Whitepaper has been released by the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center that details how Windows Management Instrumentation can be used by attackers to perform system reconnaissance,antivirus and virtual machine (VM) detection, code execution, lateral movement, persistence, and data theft. This whitepaper will show how to … Read more
July 4, 2016– Industrial Cybersecurity suddenly became very important last week when it was reported that there are fake Rockwell automation files floating around on the internet, that attempt to install ransomware to unsuspecting users of Rockwell Control Systems (Allen Bradley series of PLCs). Among malware infections, ransom ware is the worst kind to infect … Read more
April 27, 2016– A German nuclear power plant located near the city of Munich has been found to have several strains of malware, some as old as Conficker (of the year 2008 vintage). There was a bunch of other malware as well, including remote access trojans, worms, file stealers and more! The system was not … Read more
Oct 29, 2014– After the discovery of Stuxnet in 2010, there seemed to be a lull in the rate of discovery of malware that specifically targeted industrial systems. If you recollect Stuxnet was the first really widespread, sophisticated and highly targeted malware that was directed at Siemens Control Systems including the SIMATIC range of PLCs. … Read more
