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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.
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In a first, cryptocurrency miner found on SCADA network
Water Utility in Europe Hit by Cryptocurrency Malware Mining Attack
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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 5, Informative) by requerdanos on Monday February 12 2018, @02:47AM (4 children)
Banks [extremetech.com] for their ATMs, Electric Utilties [openviewpartners.com] for their SCADA systems, Governments [microsoft.com] for their nuclear submarines, Medical Equipment Manufacturers [grahamcluley.com] for medical devices for pregnant women. (link has pics),
in practically incomprehensible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @03:42AM (2 children)
Oscilloscope manufacturer [google.com]
(Tektronix 'scopes started running Linux last century.)
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday February 12 2018, @03:25PM (1 child)
While I'm obviously no fan of running Windows on anything at all, and certainly not embedded devices, to be fair, an oscilloscope really isn't a "critical service", the way a nuclear power plant is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @09:16PM
Now, have it as part of a system doing certifications of other systems.
Now, connect it to a network that is part of a data acquisition setup.
Things can quickly snowball--particularly with an OS that requires that band-aids be pasted all over it for "security".
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 13 2018, @09:42PM
Yeah, I love the price checkers in stores running Windows that are constantly down so you can't check prices, lol, but running things like nukular submarinies???
The stupid in people boggles...
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