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JULY 15, 2022

Dragos experts investigated an infection of DirectLogic PLCs from Automation Direct, they performed reverse engineering of the password cracking tool and discovered it did not crack the password at all, rather, it exploited a vulnerability in the firmware to retrieve the password on command. ” reads the advisory published by Dragos.

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