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Modbus Vulnerabilities Used for Cyberattack on Heating Utility
Heat and Hot Water Disrupted to over 600 buildings, about 100,000 people, for 48 Hours A cyberattack occurred on a heating utility (also known as district heating) in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine, in January 2024. The malware, named FrostyGoop, is one of the few identified in the field…
Read MoreModbus Security Issues and How to Mitigate Cyber Risks
Modbus is a commonly used protocol for industrial control systems (ICS), SCADA systems, and operational technology (OT), and is used to establish communication between various devices in a network. Because Modbus-based industrial systems were deployed in isolated (air-gapped) environments, Modbus was designed for reliability, availability, and speed – not security. Therefore, the millions of Modbus…
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