Watch: This attack on the Colonial pipeline is consistent with recent trends. Targeted ransomware has emerged the most capable of today’s “commonplace” attacks.
Remote support turns into remote attack. Outsourcing a support functions allows a disgruntled vendor technician to use legitimately acquired remote access credentials to shut down a water treatment plant
Learn how hacktivists pivot through poorly-defended sites and poorly-defended cloud services into heavily-defended targets.
Defeating a a jump host with 2-factor authentication. Attackers use spear-phishing and custom malware attachments to target technicians authorized to log into a jump host. A technician activates their VPN and logs in using two-factor authentication. This activates the malware, giving attackers control of the remote desktop window.
Cell phone supply chain attack – attackers write a free cell-phone app. When cell phones with the app are carried into industrial control systems, the app scans for WiFi access points and reports the details over the Internet. Attackers then use phishing to extract the passwords for these networks and log in using the compromised cell phones.
Attackers write their own RAT malware & deploy on the IT network of a services company known to service the real target. The attackers compromise the laptops of personnel who routinely visit the real target and gain a foothold on the real target’s IT network, ultimately propagating to the ICS network
An organized crime group develops a history of routine speculation on futures markets for gasoline. Then they damage equipment at a refinery by using known vulnerabilities on internet facing IT equipment. This cripples the supply, makes prices spike, and attackers profit from their speculation.
Targeted ransomware was responsible for all OT/industrial shutdowns in 2020. Here are the top 10 attacks that shut down industrial operations
Nation state attackers use more sophisticated tools such as the BlackEnergy trojan to ultimately take over equipment on the ICS network and disable protective relays. The attack group then sends control commands to very quickly connect and disconnect power flows to parts of the grid, destroying large pieces of equipment.
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