For more information on this vulnerability, please refer to the SCADA/SCADAs tags. A new piece of industrial control malware has been discovered. Dubbed SFG, Sentinel One Labs discovered the piece on the information networks of a yet-unnamed European energy company. It appears quite sophisticated. It not only collects information on the infected system but opens […]
Something that has been warned about here since 2011. This is not limited to just Ukraine, but a very vulnerable America as well. See the SCADA/SCADAs tags for more information. Late last year, the media reported on the co-ordinated, multi-faceted attack on the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems used by a Ukrainian […]
Rail networks aren’t the only thing that can be hacked into via SCADA vulnerabilities. Medicine and medication dosages can be altered, contaminate water systems, overflow sewage systems, and the food industry can produce contaminated or poisonous food. These are only but a few of the real risks and dangers America faces — and will likely […]
Don’t ever think for a moment this is limited to Europe. Through SCADA/SCADAs vulnerability entire water systems can be shut down or poisoned, sewer systems can overflow. Medication doses can be changed, etc… Terrorists and rogue states are gaining the capability to bring a major city to a standstill with the click of a […]
For more information on SCADAs and how vulnerable they are to attack, see the SCADA/SCADAs tags. It’s been frequently warned about on this site since 2011. The location of the utility has not been revealed and its name has been changed in Verizon’s report, but given the fact of Verizon’s involvement, this likely happened […]
For more information on SCADAs, their vulnerabilities and exploitations, please see the SCADA tag. An example article showing American vulnerability to SCADA attacks: UPDATE 3: U.S. probes cyber attack on water system Several attacks have already taken place against regional power plants in Ukraine, resulting in several short-term blackouts in December 2015. It was […]
A year-long study found that the present legal and regulatory approach to EMP/Space weather threat to America’s nuclear power plants are inadequate and dangerous. This sorry state is anchored in the industry efforts to maintain safety regulations dating back to the 1980s, and a national security mentality relevant at the end of the Cold War. […]
The American homeland is one attack on only nine substations away from going in the dark. A critical portion also doesn’t even need to be hacked, as sniper rifle fire was enough to already get the job done on one power station in April of 2013. If the bad guys only wanted to wreak havoc […]
There doesn’t even need to be any hackers involved. Nine substations being taken out will send America back into the stone ages and claim upwards of 9 out of 10 American lives. That’s how safe the U.S. electrical grid is. The electrical grid in central California has already been attacked with sniper rifles in what’s […]
How many times can a nation be warned, yet still do next to nothing to neutralize the threat, before an attack or natural disaster actually happens? For more on the SCADA systems, see HERE and HERE. Imagine, for example, Russian or Chinese hackers being able to control dosage levels of medications for patients in America, […]
When the Department of Homeland Security mentions the Russians have infected critical industrial control systems with malware, it’s nearly over for America. They are able to do this through SCADA systems which has been mentioned here as early as 2013 in the following previous posts: UPDATE 3: U.S. probes cyber attack on water system Exclusive: […]
It’s quite easy to see the list of damage Putin can do to the United States and its allies, even the world over, if you’ve been awake the last few years and haven’t been spoon-fed half-truths by CNN/FOX/NBC et al. A long tracklist of capabilities and actions have been documented here within the cyberwarfare and […]
Check out the SCADA tags to see more information on how systems can be compromised and diverted or shut down. Critical U.S. infrastructures are being penetrated by foreign states in preparation for devastating future cyber attacks designed to cripple electrical power, communications and financial networks, the commander of the U.S. Cyber Command told Congress […]
If Russia wanted to, they likely could’ve powered America off yesterday. The United States has done almost next to nothing to shield it self from such an attack with the exception of putting out news reports by officials who state they’re working on a plan or ‘taking measures’ to ensure networks and infrastructure remain secure. […]
It’s not hard to imagine, after obtaining information such as this, seeing key dams failing. How would this happen? Not necessarily with terrorist bombings, but with cyberwarfare. If you wanted to physically take them down via power grids, as a professional hit team had done in California, you need only to take out nine substations […]
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