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Cybersecurity Experts Warn of New ‘Hardened’ ICS-Specific Ransomware Variant

February 5, 2020 admin Business, connected plant, Cybersecurity, Dragos, ekans, ICS, iiot, iiot chemical, iiot oil & gas, iiot power, industrial control systems, Instrumentation & Controls, malware, megacortex, news, ransomware, Research and Development, Technology, THREATS

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 01:47:11 +0000

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A primitive but unique ransomware variant that emerged in mid-December can forcibly stop a number of processes, including multiple items related to industrial control system (ICS) operations, industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos warned in a detailed report on Feb. 3. The ransomware known as “EKANS” (or “Snake,” which is “EKANS” spelled backwards) is “relatively straightforward” as […]

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TRITON/TRISIS Cyberattacker Has a New Target: Power Sector

June 14, 2019 admin Business, connected plant, cyberattack, Cybersecurity, Dragos, fireeye, ICS, iiot, iiot chemical, iiot cyber, iiot oil & gas, iiot power, Instrumentation & Controls, malware, news, Russia, Safety, safety instrumented systems, sis, Technology, trisis, triton, xenotime

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:12:51 +0000

XENOTIME, a cyberthreat activity group thought responsible for TRISIS/TRITON malware attacks on safety instrumented systems (SIS) at an oil and gas Middle Eastern facility in 2017, has been probing power company networks in the U.S. and elsewhere, new intelligence from industrial control systems (ICS) security firm Dragos shows. “In February 2019, Dragos identified a change in […]

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New Cyberattack by Group Behind TRITON/TRISIS Reported

April 10, 2019 admin Business, connected plant, cyberattack, Cybersecurity, Dragos, fireeye, ICS, iiot, iiot chemical, iiot cyber, iiot oil & gas, iiot power, monaca, news, pas, Russia, Technology, trisis, triton

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 22:45:39 +0000

Cybersecurity firm FireEye has uncovered and is responding to a new intrusion at an unnamed critical infrastructure facility that it suggests in an April 10 blog post was perpetrated by the group behind the TRITON attack, which prompted a process shutdown at a Middle Eastern facility in 2017. But while details of the new attack are sparse, […]

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New TRITON/TRISIS Cyberattack Reported at Critical Infrastructure Facility

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:04:17 +0000

A new critical infrastructure facility has suffered a TRITON intrusion, says cybersecurity firm FireEye. The company confirmed in an April 10 blog post that it has uncovered and is responding to an “an additional intrusion by the attacker behind TRITON at a different critical infrastructure facility.” Details about the attack are sparse, but FireEye and […]

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Cyberattack Debilitates Major Aluminum and Hydropower Producer

March 19, 2019 admin Business, connected plant, Cybersecurity, cyberx, Dragos, Hydro, hydropower, iiot, iiot chemical, iiot cyber, iiot power, indegy, International, lockergoga, news, Norway, notpetya, nozomi, ransomware, Renewables, wannacry

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:05:53 +0000

Norsk Hydro, a major global aluminum producer that is also Norway’s third-largest producer of hydropower, has been stricken by an extensive cyberattack—reportedly ransomware—that forced its entire global network offline. The company powers its sizable aluminum production operations with 20 hydropower plants concentrated in Telemark, Røldal-Suldal, Sogn, and Vennesla, producing a total 10 TWh per year. […]

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New Cyber Threat Actor Targeting Power Sector Identified

August 2, 2018 admin connected plant, Cybersecurity, Dragos, general, iiot cyber, iiot power, leafminer, news, raspite, symantec, threat actors, Ukraine, xenotime

Cybersecurity experts have identified a new activity group that they say is targeting access operations at electric utilities in the U.S., Europe, Middle East, and East Asia. Cybersecurity firm Dragos Inc. told POWER on August 1 that though it has confirmed that the group—which it dubbed “RASPITE”—is actively targeting electric utilities, “there is no current indication […]

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