Hey, I’m SCADAGirl.

I’m a cybersecurity superhero that ensures that OT & IoT networks are safe.

Here is my commentary on the latest headlines in OT & IoT security.

ICS Advisory (ICSA-20-240-01) Red Lion N-Tron 702-W, 702M12-W

 SCADAfence Research – ICS Ethernet Switches used in Industrial Networks by manufacturer Red Lion are exposed to Remote Command Injection. The switches types are 702-W and 702M12-W. Read More 

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Critical Vulnerabilities Expose MoFi Routers to Remote Attacks

 SCADAfence Research  – IOT Routers made by MoFi network are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities. The series affected is MOFI4500, which includes several routers which includes WIFI and 4g capabilities. Companies utilizing such routers for mobile or remote connectivity should check their devices for updates. Read More

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BLURtooth Vulnerability Lets Attackers Defeat Bluetooth Encryption

SCADAfence Research – IOT BLURtooth vulnerability exposes new generations of bluetooth-enabled devices to MITM attacks. Academic researchers have discovered that certain implementations of Bluetooth 4.0 to 5.0 suffer from weak key generation and thus allow MITM to take place. Read More

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Netwalker Ransomware Hits Pakistan’s Largest Private Power Utility

SCADAfence Research – Netwalker Ransomware hits the largest private power company in Pakistan. The ransomware caused disruption in billing and online services. Read More 

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Windows Zerologon PoC Exploits Allow Domain Takeover. Patch This Now!

SCADAfence Research – A PoC was released for the Zerologon vulnerability, which allows attackers to gain Domain Admin privileges and take over windows domain environments. The vulnerability CVE-2020-1472 was patched by Microsoft in the last August update. The vulnerability occurs when an attempt to login as a domain administrator is made, and a spoofed response is sent to the client telling the login succeeded. The vulnerability relies on the fact that it is possible to fallback to unencrypted RPC, and after that, using a security flaw found in Netlogon AES-CFB8 cryptographic negotiation. Please read more for the full article & the POC code. Read More 

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Ransomware Attack at German Hospital Leads to Death of Patient

 SCADAfence Research – Ransomware attack at a German hospital leads to the death of a patient. The ransomware attack lead to the situation where emergency care could not occur at the hospital, and a patient in a life-threatening condition died after being forced to go to a more distant hospital. Read More

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ICS Advisory (ICSA-13-011-01)

 SCADAfence Research – Devices running CoDeSys are vulnerable to read/write any files on devices running it. Also devices running CoDeSys require no authentication by default, making attackers able to change the device configuration. Read More

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The Windows XP Source Code Was Allegedly Leaked Online

 SCADAfence Research – Windows XP Source code was leaked online, and can be downloaded by a torrent. The leaked source code may help attackers find new, yet unknown, vulnerabilities in, even new, Windows operating systems. Read More 

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Ransomware Hits US-Based Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Giant

 SCADAfence Research – US-based Arthur J. Gallagher (AJG) global insurance brokerage and risk management firm confirmed a ransomware attack that hit its systems. Read More 

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UHS Hospitals Hit by Reported Country-Wide Ryuk Ransomware Attack

 SCADAfence Research – UHS hospitals hit by reported country-wide Ryuk ransomware attack, shutting down a few of its hospitals.

“After 1min or so of this the computers logged out and shutdown. When you try to power back on the computers they automatically just shutdown. “We have no access to anything computer based including old labs, ekg’s, or radiology studies. We have no access to our PACS radiology system.” Read More

As industrial systems become increasingly connected to IT, Cloud and ERP systems, they become increasingly exposed to cyber threats such as ransomware. In fact, cyber threats for industrial control systems (ICS) are on the rise.

Asset owners are often operating legacy equipment, which contains a large number of vulnerabilities, including unpatched industrial devices, unsupported operating systems like Windows XP and Windows 7, and others. Although this equipment may be productive for now, it is not secure, and the level of risk rises with time.

SCADAfence runs into these problems constantly with their customers as their industrial cybersecurity products were designed to help their users get through these security obstacles, such as aging equipment, the adoption of IIoT devices in Industry 4.0, and visibility gaps. As SCADAfence helps their customers drive their security and regain control over their network, here are some of the problems that they see in their industrial environments.

The Challenges SCADAfence Sees In Industrial Networks Today

Asset management is often managed with cumbersome Excel sheets, which is often inaccurate, and outdated. Security teams and OT operators need to know about real-time deviations in network traffic to account for cyberattacks like Malware or Ransomware, which can spread in minutes.

When having SCADAfence installed passively in their network, their customers often discover tens to hundreds of “shadow” OT devices or devices that the operators didn’t know existed. Even worse, many of the unaccounted for devices may be connected to the internet.

Four Ways to Solve These Constant Industrial Network Challenges

1. Maximum Rate Bandwidth for Increased Data Analysis  The SCADAfence Platform was built to handle large amounts of traffic. Utilizing Garland Technology’s visibility solutions, they read every bit, byte, and packet using full deep packet inspection (DPI) to have the highest detection rate in the industry. Most industrial network monitoring platforms don’t have the bandwidth to process this sizable data.

2. Setting an Operational Baseline with Advanced AI Capabilities  SCADAfence also offers a unique Micro Granular Baseline technology. This technology learns every device’s granular traffic characteristics. Providing the most accurate detection mechanism, this unique technology helps their customers to dramatically reduce false-positives without the need to reconfigure the baseline, even with operational changes. Customers gain precise and reliable results in hours vs weeks, with continuous intelligence utilizing advanced AI capabilities.

3. Instant Analytics and Reporting for Governance and Compliance   The SCADAfence Governance Portal, provides fully automated compliance dashboards and detailed compliance reports, which allows their customers to view status trends and comparisons over time. These accurate and up-to-date compliance status are based on real network traffic data analytics that tracks and measure industrial regulations and organizational best practices.

This is especially important to critical infrastructures, which have to meet certain frameworks and compliances to work under the correct guidelines. This tool ensures that their customers can remain fully compliant with industrial standards such as NERC-CIP, IEC-62443, NIST, ISO-27001, NIS NCSC, NIST CSF, and others – including internal policies that can be set up by their own organizations.

Taking in the packet traffic from Garland’s network TAPs, SCADAfence’s stand-alone monitoring will passively scan the traffic from every appliance with the utmost industry standards. Users can choose the industry standard that they want to be compliant with and the Governance Portal will show updated real-time reports in clear detail. SCADAfence finds that their customers find this incredibly valuable and time-efficient.

4. 100% Packet-level Network Visibility with Garland Technology  It’s very important with a network monitoring solution to not be intrusive in your OT process. SCADAfence offers continuous passive OT network monitoring that provides visibility, automatic asset discovery, inventory management, risk management, and threat detection is needed to capture the current operational behavior of the environment.

Generating 100% packet-level visibility with Garland’s visibility solution, SCADAfence is able to render critical insights to detect and provide alerts on cybersecurity and operational incidents like suspicious activities, exposures, malware attacks, and operational alerts such as service availability, and misconfigurations. This allows users to gain unique visibility into remote access connections and correlate OT actions to IT accounts.

For more information visit the Garland Technology and SCADAfence joint solution.  Looking to add visibility to your industrial environment, but not sure where to start?  Join us for a brief network Design-IT consultation or demo. No obligation – it’s what we love to do.

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