Attackers don’t need to directly hack into a programmable logic controller (PLC) to wreak havoc on an industrial process: they can target its configuration files and pivot from there. Researchers over the past year have been exposing easily exploitable holes in the so-called project files that reside in industrial control system (ICS) software for PLCs. […]
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The researchers analyzed programming languages from ABB, Comau, Denso, Fanuc, Kawasaki, Kuka, Mitsubishi, and Universal Robots, which can be used to create custom applications that enable industrial robots to carry out complex automation routines. The experts looked at 100 open source automation programs developed with these languages and discovered vulnerabilities in many of them, including […]
The notorious Stuxnet malware, which the United States and Israel used to cause damage to Iran’s nuclear program, was designed to target SIMATIC S7-300 and S7-400 PLCs made by Siemens. Stuxnet loaded malicious code onto targeted PLCs by abusing Siemens’ STEP7 software, which is provided by the German industrial giant for programming controllers. Stuxnet replaced […]
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