Such stories are not fairy tales

rakhirani458 · Post by **rakhirani458** » Sat Feb 08, 2025 9:40 am

— So, in fact, this is espionage?

— Yes! And we don’t know what to do about it yet. In our opinion, this should be discussed at the Emperor’s board and some decisions should be made to stop purchasing drones from our neighbors. We need to make our own! And allow foreign ones to enter the market only after certification.

- Ye-e-e-e! You raise serious issues. But thank you for raising them!

Alas, or fantasy. We live in a world in which fairy tales have long since become reality!

Trends in attacks on industrial control systems
Alex Sidorov | 08.10.2018
Kaspersky Lab and Symantec report an increase hungary mobile database attacks on industrial control systems ( ICS ). These attacks have some distinctive features: they are more targeted at developing countries than Western Europe and the US, the majority of attacks are carried out via the Internet, removable media or email, and cryptocurrency malware attacks 1-4% of ICS monthly .

As eWeek notes, a new modular malware system called VPNFilter began infecting home and small office routers and network storage devices in May. According to Cisco, more than 500,000 devices in 54 countries were infected. Moreover, the malware scanned for traffic over the Modbus protocol, which is used in many ICS.

The attack is just the latest in a series of campaigns targeting industrial, manufacturing, and control systems. It’s alarming that purely digital threats could cause physical damage, especially if VPNFilter’s destructive capabilities are used, according to a study of the malware by Cisco Talos Intelligence.

“The malware’s behavior on network equipment is particularly troubling, as VPNFilter components allow the theft of website credentials and monitoring of Modbus SCADA protocols,” the researchers note. “Finally, the malware has destructive potential, capable of rendering an infected device inoperable. This can be done on individual victim machines or en masse. Hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide could be disconnected from the Internet.”