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2 months, 4 weeks ago
ZionSiphon Malware Targets Water Infrastructure Systems
ZionSiphon malware targets OT water systems with sabotage and ICS scanning capabilities
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ICS security covers industrial control systems running physical processes and relying on reliable networks, where failures may affect safety and availability.
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Industrial control systems (ICS) are the computers, networks, programmable controllers, sensors, and actuators that monitor and operate physical processes. They include supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), distributed control systems, and plant-floor automation in sectors such as manufacturing, energy, transport, and water. Their critical assets are the control logic and process data, while their dependencies include engineering workstations, operator consoles, industrial protocols, communications links, and sometimes connections to enterprise or remote-access systems.
ICS security must protect availability, process integrity, and safety as well as confidentiality. Unauthorized changes to controller logic, compromised remote access, vulnerable engineering software, or disruption of communications can produce unsafe conditions or halt operations, though impact depends on the process and its safeguards. Defenses commonly include accurate asset inventories, network segmentation, tightly controlled and monitored remote access, secure configuration, tested backups of control logic, and vulnerability management that accounts for maintenance windows and the risks of disrupting real-time systems. Incident response may require isolating affected equipment while preserving safe operation or manual fallback.
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Info Security Magazine
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Industrial Control System Vulnerabilities Hit Record Highs
Forescout paper reveals ICS advisories hit a record 508 in 2025
Info Security Magazine
6 months ago
Cyber Threat Actors Ramp Up Attacks on Industrial Environments
Hacktivists and cybercriminals have intensified their efforts to exploit vulnerabilities in industrial systems, according to a Cyble report
Info Security Magazine
1 year ago
CISA Issues Advisories on Critical ICS Vulnerabilities Across Multiple Sectors
The US CISA has issued advisories for Industrial Control Systems vulnerabilities affecting multiple vendors including Johnson Controls, ABB, Hitachi Energy, and Schneider Electric
Info Security Magazine
1 year, 3 months ago
Cyble Urges Critical Vulnerability Fixes Affecting Industrial Systems
Rockwell Automation, Hitachi Energy and Inaba Denki Sangyo have products affected by critical vulnerabilities carrying severity ratings as high as 9.9
Info Security Magazine
1 year, 6 months ago
New Malware Can Kill Engineering Processes in ICS Environments
Forescout identified a new type of malware capable of terminating engineering processes, used to target Siemens engineering workstations
Info Security Magazine
1 year, 7 months ago
Researchers Discover Malware Used by Nation-Sates to Attack Industrial Systems
IOCONTROL, a custom-built IoT/OT malware, was used by Iran-affiliated groups to attack Israel- and US-based OT/IoT devices, according to Claroty
Info Security Magazine
1 year, 8 months ago
CISA Warns of Critical Software Vulnerabilities in Industrial Devices
Multiple vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation and Mitsubishi products could allow ICS cyber-attacks
Info Security Magazine
2 years, 6 months ago
CISA Urges Critical Infrastructure to Patch Urgent ICS Vulnerabilities
CISA’s advisory provides mitigations for vulnerabilities in ICS products used in critical infrastructure industries like energy, manufacturing and transportation
Info Security Magazine
2 years, 9 months ago
US Government Issues Open-Source Security Guidance for Critical Infrastructure
The recommendations are designed to reduce the life-safety implications of cyber incidents in ICS environments
Info Security Magazine
2 years, 9 months ago
Nearly 100,000 Industrial Control Systems Exposed to the Internet
A new report from Bitsight has highlighted how thousands of physical critical infrastructure organizations are vulnerable to cyber-attacks
Info Security Magazine
2 years, 10 months ago
MITRE and CISA Release OT Attack Emulation Tool
The open source tool will enable cyber teams to consistently test and boost the defenses of ICS environments
Info Security Magazine
3 years, 5 months ago
Fifth of ICS Bugs Have No Patch Available
Some industrial systems have been exposed for three years
Info Security Magazine
3 years, 5 months ago
Over a Third of Recent ICS Bugs Still Have No Vendor Patch
News comes as thousands of critical infrastructure attacks are detected
Info Security Magazine
4 years ago
Hackers Deploy Shadowpad Backdoor and Target Industrial Control Systems in Asia
Telecommunications companies in Pakistan and Afghanistan and a port in Malaysia targeted
Info Security Magazine
4 years, 4 months ago
Most Disclosed ICS Vulnerabilities are Low Complexity
Past four years sees surge in ICS vulnerability disclosures with most vulnerabilities of low complexity