ICS/SCADA

The disclosure of industrial control vulnerabilities jumped by 41% in the first half of the year as high-profile ransomware attacks against critical infrastructure have grabbed headlines.

As funding divvied to cyber startups continues to explode, founders face a new dilemma: When and from whom do they accept the millions of dollars?

For its first-ever industrial controls cyber solution assessment, Mitre tested vendor solutions against Triton malware.

The attack pairs a new vulnerability with older flaws that can be leveraged in new ways to attack a popular controller used across critical infrastructure sectors.

ReFirm provides drag-and-drop automated firmware analysis, which Microsoft hopes will provide security insight for industrial IoT products, where security personnel often struggle to look inside built-in hardware.

Dragos limited initial disclosure to only relevant parties, after discovering a watering-hole malware attack that later turned out to be unrelated.

Hackers with minimal experience and technical expertise are increasingly targeting industrial networks, driving a new wave of low sophistication OT breaches that researchers tell SC Media is a strong learning opportunity for criminals.