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
(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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