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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For more on SCADAs, please see the following previous posts: Exclusive: Cyberattack leaves natural gas pipelines vulnerable to sabotage UPDATE 3: U.S. probes cyber attack on water system Security backdoor found in China-made US military chip The NSA’s TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency’s top secret weapon. It maintains its […]
Another interesting factor in attacks on the U.S. critical infrastructure is the exploiting of SCADAS. It’s been evidenced quite a few times that these have been compromised. Here is one such example: UPDATE 3: U.S. probes cyber attack on water system More than 10,000 people in Arkansas were dumped into a blackout Sunday following an attack on that […]
For further information on SCADAs, please see the following Global Geopolitics entries that were ahead of the curve: Security backdoor found in China-made US military chip UPDATE 3: U.S. probes cyber attack on water system “Red Dragon Rising: Communist China’s Military Threat to America” from 1999 is a highly recommended read. The United States is in more vulnerable […]
As discussed in numerous previous posts, China (and Russia) has made it known that they can toy with our electrical grid, nuclear deterrent, water/sewage systems via SCADAs, infiltrate government and military computers at will and pop nuclear submarines up in the middle of US Navy exercises… undetected. The “manchurian microchip” is nothing new, but this […]
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