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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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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @11:26AM
Some systems actually have a real time kernel, that windows kernel runs on top of. Crashing the windows won't crash the RT kernel. The time slot for windows kernel is given by the RT kernel, and that quarantees RT execution. Not that i see much benefit in having windows running there at all. HMIs are different, they are never RT anyway.