BlackHat 2015: Industrial hacking: the untold story

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http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500251365/BlackHat-2015-Industrial-hacking-the-untold-story

By Warwick Ashford
Security Editor
ComputerWeekly.com
10 Aug 2015

Hacking of industrial plants for extortion is one of the biggest untold 
stories because such attacks are seldom reported, according to Marina 
Krotofil, a researcher at Hamburg University of Technology.

Hackers have been penetrating industrial control systems of utility 
companies on a large scale for extortion since at least 2006, she told 
visitors to BlackHat USA 2015 security conference in Las Vegas.

“Yet, almost 10 years later, we still know almost nothing about how the 
attackers are doing that because targeted companies are unwilling to make 
any information available,” she said.

Most of the attacks on operational technologies in the past 20 years have 
not been reported, which means exactly how attackers interact with 
industrial control systems remains unknown.

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