A researcher at Austria-based cybersecurity consultancy SEC Consult discovered five types of vulnerabilities in Pepperl+Fuchs Comtrol industrial products, including cross-site request forgery (CSRF), reflected cross-site scripting (XSS), blind command injection, and denial-of-service (DoS) issues. The impacted products were found to leverage outdated versions of third-party components that were known to have vulnerabilities, including PHP, OpenSSL, […]
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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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