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September 30, 2019 – According to the recent Kaspersky ICS CERT report, a concerning percentage of industrial control system (ICS) computers in the energy sector globally were targeted by cyberattacks in the first six months of 2019. Of the Kaspersky solutions installed on ICS computers, 41.6% experienced and blocked a cyber threat. The three main cyber threats detected in energy ICS environments included worms (7.1%), spyware (3.7%) and cryptocurrency miners (2.9%).


Industrial cyber incidents are among the most dangerous cyberattacks as they typically result in production downtime, tangible financial losses and are difficult to overcome. This is especially true when incidents occur in critical, life-supporting sectors such as energy. Malware infections can also negatively affect the availability and integrity of ICS and other systems that are part of the industrial network.


Among the threats that were detected in H1 2019, a few were particularly unique. This includes Agent Tesla, a specialized Trojan spy malware designed to steal authentication data, screenshots and data captured from web cameras and keyboards. Kaspersky products also identified and blocked cases of the Meterpreter backdoor which was being used to remotely control computers on the industrial networks of energy systems. Attacks that use the backdoor are targeted and often conducted in manual mode. Syswin, a new wiper worm written in Python and packed into the Windows executable format, was also detected. This threat can have a significant impact on ICS computers due to its ability to self-propagate and destroy data.


Kaspersky experts also analyzed the automotive manufacturing (39.3%) and building automation (37.8%) industries, taking the second and the third place respectively to the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked.


Additional report findings include:


  • On average, ICS computers do not operate entirely inside the security perimeter of typical corporate environments, meaning tasks related to protecting the ICS and corporate segment are, to some extent, unrelated.

  • Generally, the level of malicious activity inside the ICS segment is connected with malware activity happening in the country where the ICS environment is located.

  • In countries where the security of ICS is favorable, low levels of compromised ICS computers are attributable to protection measures and tools that are in place rather than a limited level of malicious activity.

  • Self-propagating malicious programs are very active in some countries. In the cases analyzed, these were worms designed to infect removable media (USB flash drives, removable hard drives, mobile phones, etc.). It appears that infections with worms via removable media is the most common infection scenario for ICS computers.


“The collected statistics, as well as analysis into industrial cyberthreats, are a proven asset for assessing current trends and predicting what type of danger we should all prepare for,” says Kirill Kruglov, security researcher at Kaspersky.“This report has identified that security experts should be particularly cautious about malicious software that aims to steal data, spy on critically important objects, penetrate the perimeter and destroy the data. All of these types of incident could cause lots of trouble for the ICS industry.”

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Kaspersky Report: ICS Energy Sector faces increased pressure from cyberthreats


September 30, 2019 – According to the recent Kaspersky ICS CERT report, a concerning percentage of industrial control system (ICS) computers in the energy sector globally were targeted by cyberattacks in the first six months of 2019. Of the Kaspersky solutions installed on ICS computers, 41.6% experienced and blocked a cyber threat. The three main cyber threats detected in energy ICS environments included worms (7.1%), spyware (3.7%) and cryptocurrency miners (2.9%).


Industrial cyber incidents are among the most dangerous cyberattacks as they typically result in production downtime, tangible financial losses and are difficult to overcome. This is especially true when incidents occur in critical, life-supporting sectors such as energy. Malware infections can also negatively affect the availability and integrity of ICS and other systems that are part of the industrial network.


Among the threats that were detected in H1 2019, a few were particularly unique. This includes Agent Tesla, a specialized Trojan spy malware designed to steal authentication data, screenshots and data captured from web cameras and keyboards. Kaspersky products also identified and blocked cases of the Meterpreter backdoor which was being used to remotely control computers on the industrial networks of energy systems. Attacks that use the backdoor are targeted and often conducted in manual mode. Syswin, a new wiper worm written in Python and packed into the Windows executable format, was also detected. This threat can have a significant impact on ICS computers due to its ability to self-propagate and destroy data.


Kaspersky experts also analyzed the automotive manufacturing (39.3%) and building automation (37.8%) industries, taking the second and the third place respectively to the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked.


Additional report findings include:


  • On average, ICS computers do not operate entirely inside the security perimeter of typical corporate environments, meaning tasks related to protecting the ICS and corporate segment are, to some extent, unrelated.

  • Generally, the level of malicious activity inside the ICS segment is connected with malware activity happening in the country where the ICS environment is located.

  • In countries where the security of ICS is favorable, low levels of compromised ICS computers are attributable to protection measures and tools that are in place rather than a limited level of malicious activity.

  • Self-propagating malicious programs are very active in some countries. In the cases analyzed, these were worms designed to infect removable media (USB flash drives, removable hard drives, mobile phones, etc.). It appears that infections with worms via removable media is the most common infection scenario for ICS computers.


“The collected statistics, as well as analysis into industrial cyberthreats, are a proven asset for assessing current trends and predicting what type of danger we should all prepare for,” says Kirill Kruglov, security researcher at Kaspersky.“This report has identified that security experts should be particularly cautious about malicious software that aims to steal data, spy on critically important objects, penetrate the perimeter and destroy the data. All of these types of incident could cause lots of trouble for the ICS industry.”

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