SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The utility's general manager, Robert J. The attack has been linked to CyberAv3ngers, an Iranian-backed group known for its focus on targeting Israeli water and energy sites. These recommendations include: Change all default passwords on PLCs and HMIs. Ensure the Unitronics PLC default password '1111' is not in use.

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Energy and Utilities VPN Authentication Passwords 117

SecureList

MAY 28, 2025

When it detected activity related to authentication that needed the input of a PIN, password, or pattern, it attempted to identify the type of authentication being used and captured the corresponding input. Once active in the background, the malware constantly monitored system events triggered by other applications.

Banking 112

Banking Malware Energy and Utilities Encryption 112

CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 18, 2023

Surprisingly, most of the data has been sold and used in multiple cyber attack campaigns, with only a small number of bank account credentials and healthcare data being utilized. These services, and others like them, can keep a constant tab on the dark web and check whether your data is being used for any criminal activity or such.

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Energy and Utilities Hacking Cyber Attacks Passwords 91

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

K-Electric (KE) (formerly known as Karachi Electric Supply Company / Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Limited) is a Pakistani investor-owned utility managing all three key stages – generation, transmission and distribution – of producing and delivering energy to consumers. Use two-factor authentication with strong passwords.

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Ransomware Energy and Utilities VPN Advertising 145

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Here's what Blindingcan has accomplished so far: "A threat group with a nexus to North Korea targeted government contractors early this year to gather intelligence surrounding key military and energy technologies. If these services are required, use strong passwords or Active Directory authentication.

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Energy and Utilities Passwords Antivirus Firewall 97

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2023

It is intended for cyber-espionage, and its features include keylogging, recording using the microphone, taking screenshots and stealing website passwords and email messages. The group went after high-profile entities operating in the government, aviation, energy, telecoms and banking sectors.

Energy and Utilities 145

Energy and Utilities Malware Government Manufacturing 145

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

This will be led by the manufacturing, consumer, transportation and utilities sectors. One recent study demonstrated how, by analyzing readings from a smart home, such as energy consumption, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide levels, and humidity changes, it was possible to triangulate what someone had for dinner.

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Internet Internet IoT Energy and Utilities 189

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Eskom transforms inputs from the natural environment – coal, nuclear, fuel, diesel, water, and wind – into more than 90% of the energy supplied to a wide range of customers in South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. Government of the Republic of South Africa owned utility ESKOM Hld SOC Ltd.

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Energy and Utilities Ransomware InfoSec Hacking 102

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. Allegedly developed by US and Israeli operatives, Stuxnet was discovered circulating through Iranian nuclear energy facilities in 2010.

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Hacking Energy and Utilities System Administration Accountability 212

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

. “As early as 2022, APT28 actors had utilized compromised EdgeRouters to facilitate covert cyber operations against governments, militaries, and organizations around the world.” APT28 had utilized compromised Ubiquiti EdgeRouters as a command-and-control infrastructure for MASEPIE backdoors. ” reads the joint report.

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Energy and Utilities Government Firewall Malware 133

SecureList

MARCH 13, 2025

Additionally, Head Mare attacks utilized command-and-control (C2) servers exclusively linked to Twelve prior to these incidents. Anti-detection techniques Head Mare continued to use the Masquerading technique (T1655), naming utility executables like standard operating system files. doc" --include "*.docx" pdf" --include "*.xls"

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Energy and Utilities Software Accountability Phishing 80

Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

The attacks took place between mid-2019 and early 2021, the Russia-linked threat actor used a Kubernetes cluster to conduct anonymized brute force access against hundreds of government organizations and businesses worldwide, including think tanks, defense contractors, energy firms. ” reads the joint report.

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Energy and Utilities VPN Government Passwords 100

SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Decreasing CTI quality – unfounded politically motivated cyberthreat attribution, exaggerated threats, lower statement validity criteria due to political pressure and in an attempt to utilize the government’s political narrative to earn additional profits. Exploiting configuration errors in security solutions.

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Energy and Utilities Marketing Government Phishing 131

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

The second flaw discovered in the Medtronic Valleylab products (CVE-2019-13539) ties the use of the descrypt algorithm for OS password hashing. Another vulnerability is related to the use of a vulnerable version of the rssh utility in these products to facilitate file uploads. The vulnerability has received a CVSS score of 7.0.

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Energy and Utilities Advertising Software Hacking 72

Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 18, 2025

Utilizing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), this feature ensures your devices are nearby when logging in and automatically responds to the push verification without requiring user input. It checks critical elements such as your OS version and patch level, password protection, disk encryption, firewall status, and security agents.

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Authentication Energy and Utilities Phishing Mobile 52

Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2019

The APT33 group has been around since at least 2013, since mid-2016, the group targeted the aviation industry and energy companies with connections to petrochemical production. These executables are both downloaders that utilize powershell to load the PUPY RAT. Most of the targets were in the Middle East, others were in the U.S.,

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Energy and Utilities Malware Advertising InfoSec 110

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. However, the technological side of cybersecurity is no longer the weakest link in a company’s proverbial chain. costing an estimated $18.88 billion.

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Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Internet 120

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 21, 2022

The threat of attacks against Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) – energy, utilities, telecommunications, and transportation – is now front of mind for many. This includes using easily guessed passwords and falling victim to phishing and socially engineered techniques such as business email compromise.

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Cyber threats Energy and Utilities Ransomware IoT 71

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 16, 2022

More than 1,500 organizations worldwide spanning Financial Services, Defense, Manufacturing, Energy, Aerospace, and Transportation Systems trust OPSWAT to secure their files and devices; ensure compliance with industry and government-driven policies and regulations, and protect their reputation, finances,? networking infrastructure.

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Engineering Cybersecurity Energy and Utilities Software 124

Herjavec Group

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Solar BR Coca-Cola A partnership venture between The Coca-Cola Company and two other large domestic manufacturers and distributors of beer, soft drinks, juices, energy drinks and dairy products. Educate users on strong passwords and the re-use of old passwords. . Food Beverage & Tobacco Brazil. ATT&CK Lifecycle .

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Ransomware Manufacturing Encryption Energy and Utilities 109

Hacker Combat

JUNE 3, 2021

According to Thomas Weber, an SEC Consult researcher: “This TFTP server can be abused to read all files from the system as the daemon runs as root which results in a password hash exposure via the file /etc/passwd. Energy and power. Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) file write/read issues. Heavy machinery. Automation. Surveillance.

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Firmware Energy and Utilities Cyber Attacks Surveillance 85

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We have seen targeted attacks exploiting the vulnerability to target companies in research and development, the energy sector and other major industries, banking, the medical technology sector, as well as telecoms and IT. That library was then loaded by the legitimate MsMpEng.exe by utilizing the DLL side-loading technique.

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Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 136

Webroot

MARCH 4, 2024

Energy efficiency Smart grids balance energy supply and demand, minimizing wastage. Renewable energy sources integrate seamlessly into the grid. Example: Smart meter: “Solar panels are generating excess energy. Chatbots straddle the line between utility and emotional impact. The strange life of chatbots 1.

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Energy and Utilities Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing Banking 119

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 7, 2023

You may use a VPN or install utilities to capture and forward traffic to other subnets, or configure proxychains. The category usually matches the typical phases of a pentest, like “information gathering” or “post-exploitation,” but also recurrent tasks, such as “password attacks.”

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Penetration Testing Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Hacking 141

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 3, 2021

They had super weak, easily guessable passwords, which was visible to anyone who looked. Mind you, SolarWinds software is used to monitor network traffic by someone of the biggest names in the federal government (such as the Treasury department, the department of Commerce, department of Energy, NATO, and the European parliament).

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Cybersecurity Energy and Utilities Social Engineering Phishing 136

Security Boulevard

APRIL 28, 2021

Networks can also be easily breached by social engineering, password theft, or tainted USBs, as in the Stuxnet attack. . . A few years ago, a group of attackers used the Trojan to deploy SCADA-related plugins against victims in energy and ICS/SCADA networks in Ukraine and around the world. The Dangers of ICS Memory-Based Attacks.

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Energy and Utilities Malware DDOS Internet 72

The Security Ledger

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Also: Rachel Stockton of the firm LastPass * joins us to talk about changing users troublesome password behavior to make companies more secure. grid happened on March 5, 2019 when an unidentified actor attacked firewalls at an undisclosed utility that was part of the power grid in California, Utah and Wyoming.

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Cyber Attacks Energy and Utilities Cyber Risk Firewall 40

Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

With the increase of supply chain attacks on everything from logging software like Log4J to takeovers of important JavaScript packages to compromises of network utility tools like SolarWinds, more and more organizations are recognizing the need to adopt a Zero Trust mindset. not just username and password.

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Software Architecture Energy and Utilities Risk 105

SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

It affects Modicon models M340, M580 and others, which are found in “millions” of controllers used in building services, automation, manufacturing, energy utilities and HVAC systems. Other Modicon models are still being investigated for potential impact.

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Authentication Encryption Energy and Utilities Media 61

Cisco Security

AUGUST 26, 2021

With the addition of Kenna Security into our program we now have over 250 technology partners and over 400 integrations for our mutual customers to utilize. Data is available on a number of RF protocols including Cellular, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, and IEEE 802.15.4. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Technology Firewall VPN Authentication 145

SecureList

DECEMBER 1, 2023

DroxiDat, a lean variant of SystemBC that acts as a system profiler and simple SOCKS5-capable bot, was detected at an electric utility company. The C2 (command and control) infrastructure for the incident involved an energy-related domain, ‘powersupportplan[.]com’, com’, that resolved to an already suspicious IP host.

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Malware Ransomware Encryption Energy and Utilities 139

SecureList

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

One of these botnets was Quad7 , which was installed on compromised routers by the Storm-0940 actor to conduct password spraying. In general, we’ve observed hacktivists in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict become more skilled and more focused on attacking large organizations such as government, manufacturing and energy entities.

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IoT Energy and Utilities Phishing Cryptocurrency 120

SecureList

MAY 25, 2021

Energy and Utilities (10%), Finance (10%), Professional and Consumer Services (10%), Transportation (7%), and Healthcare (7%) were also at the top of their list. According to the victim list published by the threat actors, two-fifths (41%) of JSWorm attacks were targeted against companies in the Engineering and Manufacturing category.

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Ransomware Encryption Malware Energy and Utilities 139

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 25, 2022

Focuses on common edge use cases in six vertical industries – healthcare, retail, finance, manufacturing, energy, and U.S. 40% energy and utilities are in the mature stage. Password authentication. public sector. Presents actionable advice for securing the edge. 52% of manufacturing are in the mature stage.

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Cybersecurity Energy and Utilities Architecture Retail 52

Spinone

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Financial institutions, healthcare, public sector and government agencies, manufacturing, and energy companies are all embracing digital business trends. Blockchain Single Sign On for Leading Cloud Services Additional security is added by rethinking the username-and-password model of inputting credentials.

Technology 40

Technology Energy and Utilities Authentication Cyber Attacks 40

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For many households, energy costs represent a significant part of their overall budget. Enter the utility scam , where crooks pretend to be your utility company so they can threaten and extort as much money from you as they can. The utility scam often works by threatening and scaring victims into making poor decisions.

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Scams Energy and Utilities Advertising Mobile 143

NopSec

OCTOBER 19, 2016

These in many cases will utilize multiple attack vectors each playing a small piece of the whole attack. How many of our help desk staff would deny a board member from resetting his password? If they are burned on site all of the planning, all of the expense of time and energy is lost.

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Social Engineering Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing 40