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Compromised Microsoft Windows-Based Industrial Control Systems Mined Cryptocurrencies

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

canopic jug 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.

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

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• ''critical systems on Microsoft Windows?[??]'' (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @02:42AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @02:42AM (#636539)

  Yup. Clearly, somebody didn't read the EULA before clicking Accept.

  Doing mission-critical stuff on a toy OS is just nuts.
  The document that permits you to use their stuff says as much.

  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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