New Malware Tools Pose 'Clear and Present Threat' to ICS Environments

(1)The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and others, urged critical infrastructure organisations � particularly in the energy sector � to put in place defences against a set of highly sophisticated cyberattack tools designed to target and disrupt industrial environments this week. (2)The warning is especially relevant to ICS and OT networks that use Schneider Electric and Omron programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and servers based on the Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA). Read More…