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

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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  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday February 12 2018, @03:25PM (1 child)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Monday February 12 2018, @03:25PM (#636708)

    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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @09:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 12 2018, @09:16PM (#636832)

    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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