Industrial engineers and operators are the target of a new campaign that leverages password cracking software to seize control of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and co-opt the machines to a botnet.
The software « exploited a vulnerability in the firmware which allowed it to retrieve the password on command, » Dragos security researcher Sam Hanson said. « Further, the software was a malware

Industrial engineers and operators are the target of a new campaign that leverages password cracking software to seize control of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and co-opt the machines to a botnet.
The software « exploited a vulnerability in the firmware which allowed it to retrieve the password on command, » Dragos security researcher Sam Hanson said. « Further, the software was a malware