The Aurora Power Grid Vulnerability and the BlackEnergy Trojan
At recent Industrial IoT security briefings, the Aurora vulnerability has come up repeatedly. Attendees ask, “Is our country’s power …
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VPNFilter EXIF to C2 mechanism analysed
Our colleagues from Cisco Talos published their excellent analysis of VPNFilter, an IoT / router malware which exhibits some worrying …
Trisis has the security world spooked, stumped and searching for answers
At first, technicians at multinational energy giant Schneider Electric thought they were looking at the everyday software used to manage …
Exploring the darkness of BlackEnergy
On December 23 2015, 230,000 people in Ukraine were left in the dark for six hours after hackers compromised the country’s energy sector. …
From BlackEnergy to ExPetr
To date, nobody has been able to find any significant code sharing between ExPetr/Petya and older malware. Given our love for unsolved mysteries, we jumped right on it. Read full…
Researchers find cyberweapon capable of knocking out electric grids
A newly discovered malware framework, which some believe carries signs of Russian authorship, can be used by hackers to disrupt industrial control systems and cause mass power outages, according to…