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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

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 [itwire.com]
Water Utility in Europe Hit by Cryptocurrency Malware Mining Attack [eweek.com]

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