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posted by martyb on Sunday February 11 2018, @10:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the windows-tco dept.

Cryptocurrency-mining Windows malware has been found for the first time on a network of industrial control systems (ICS) at an operational treatment plant for a water utility. Radiflow, a security provider for critical infrastructure, made the discovery recently. Initial investigations suggest that the malware arrived via malicious advertising viewed in a web browser on a machine responsible for the ICS's Human Machine Interface (HMI). So really this story is about three problems.

Source :
In a first, cryptocurrency miner found on SCADA network
Water Utility in Europe Hit by Cryptocurrency Malware Mining Attack


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 12 2018, @01:43AM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 12 2018, @01:43AM (#636524) Homepage Journal

    The term "compromised" is wholly redundant when talking about a Windows system.

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Monday February 12 2018, @07:18AM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday February 12 2018, @07:18AM (#636594) Journal

    Nice to see that the Mightery Bussard is also free, as in not just 50% free, or 90% free, or even 99% free, but full on Free Software Foundation Free. We all praise the TMB.