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
Washington DC, Nov 1, 2015-The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has mandated new rules, to nuclear power plants in reporting cyberattacks against their networks after President Obama said that the US does not seem to be doing enough to prevent cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. The new rules will be mandatory after they are published in … Read more
May 28,2015– A new kind of cybersecurity incident has come to light this month, after extensive research by Panda Labs, a cybersecurity company. It involves the oil transportation industry. It appears that a large number of companies that deal in storage and transportation of oil had been hacked in a somewhat unique fashion, where oil … 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
April 07, 2011 – All of us have heard about Stuxnet, the terrible cyber worm that is supposed to be targeting only Siemens PLCs used in plants all over the world.If you’ve not heard of it, here’s an excellent report. Here is a video from a TED talk, given by Ralph Langner, a German Industrial … Read more
