ICS

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

Ivanti researchers this week flagged two zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in its products — CVE-2023-46805 and CVE-2024-21887— that are already being actively exploited by threat actors. The vulnerabilities were found in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) and Ivanti Policy Secure gateways, and the vulnerabilities affect all supported versions (Version 9.x and 22.x). Volexity assisted in identifying and…

Software Security

Issued by: CSO Online

The last year saw a rise in the sophistication and number of attacks targeting industrial infrastructure, including the discovery of a modular malware toolkit that’s capable of targeting tens of thousands of industrial control systems (ICS) across different industry verticals. At the same time, incident response engagements by industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos showed that 80%…

Application Security, Network Security, Software Security

Issued by: Security Week

SecurityWeek has also conducted an analysis of the deals announced in the first half of the year. We have cataloged 234 cybersecurity M&A deals, with a surge observed in the first half of June. 11:11 Systems acquires Static1 Managed infrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems has acquired managed network and IT infrastructure development and services firm…

Network Security

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

A zero trust strategy establishes rules and good practices to improve the security and resiliency of your IT infrastructure, but what can it do for operational technologies (OT)? It turns out, quite a bit – but there are limits. Last fall, my colleague Greg Young wrote a blog post IoT and Zero Trust are Incompatible?…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

The nonprofit cybersecurity organization is scanning the web for exposed services that use the Modbus industrial communications protocol on TCP port 502, but Shadowserver’s Piotr Kijewski told SecurityWeek that they plan on introducing many other ICS and operational technology (OT) protocol scans in the near future. Shadowserver has been working with national cybersecurity agencies, law…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Week

The attacks targeted 35,000 devices in 195 countries between January and November 2021, including devices housed by high-profile organizations. Roughly seven percent of the targets were ICS, with the engineering and building automation sectors being most impacted. Attacks were also aimed at military industrial enterprises and research laboratories. In many cases, the attackers targeted engineering…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

The companies have released patches and mitigations to address these vulnerabilities. Siemens Siemens has released 5 new advisories covering 33 vulnerabilities. The company informed customers that an update for its SINEC network management system patches 15 flaws, including ones that can be exploited for arbitrary code execution. While some of them have been assigned a…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Siemens Siemens has released 21 new advisories and updated 25 previously published advisories. The new advisories cover 36 vulnerabilities, including five that have been assigned a critical severity rating. One of the critical flaws, with a CVSS score of 10, impacts the Desigo CC building management platform and the Cerberus danger management station (DMS). The…