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Ransomware, Part 1: History and Evolution of Ransomware and Ransomware Attacks

December 12, 2023January 4, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring cyberwarriors! Recent events have once again emphasized the importance of SCADA security! On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline was attacked with ransomware and was forced the close down a pipeline carrying 45% of the gasoline to major US East Coast cities (NYC, Philadelphia, Washington DC, etc.). This set up gasoline shortages […]

SCADA Hacking: Finding Specific SCADA Systems with Censys

December 12, 2023January 3, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring SCADA Security Engineer! As you know, SCADA/ICS systems around the world are under attack. These systems are industrial systems that make up the infrastructure of any nation’s economy and are the prime targets in any cyberwar. In such a war, these systems can be easily found via a variety of tools […]

SCADA Hacking: Developing Zero-Day SCADA Exploits

December 11, 2023January 3, 2024Occupy The Web

As white-hat hackers, ultimately we want to be able to develop exploits for SCADA/ICS systems. In this way, we can find vulnerabilities and exploits before the Black Hats and patch the vulnerability before any bad guys take advantage of it. In this article, I want to give you a basic outline of the process of […]

SCADA Hacking: The Triton Malware Threat to SCADA/ICS Infrastructure

December 10, 2023January 3, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring SCADA cyber warriors! SCADA/ICS infrastructure is under continuous threat. These systems are crucial to any nation’s economic health and well-being and are the primary target in any cyber war. These systems include the electrical grid, waster water systems, manufacturing, petrochemical refining, chemical processing and nearly any industrial process. If an adversary […]

SCADA Hacking: Attacking SCADA/ICS Systems through the Human Machine Interface (HMI)

December 10, 2023January 3, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring SCADA/ICS cyberwarriors! Let’s begin by congratulating you on your foresight in committing to study SCADA/ICS hacking and security. This is certainly THE most important security issue this decade! In general, SCADA/ICS hacks have been of two types; Hack the protocols (modbus, DNP3, Profitnet, etc); Hack the Human Machine Interface (HMI) In […]

SCADA Hacking: Hacking the Schneider Automated Building System

December 6, 2023December 6, 2023Occupy The Web

SCADA and ICS systems control industrial processes around the world. Everything from railroads, to traffic lights, to oil refineries to commercial buildings are all controlled by these SCADA/ICS systems. Some of the recent concern about these systems is the possible hacking of them by terrorists or by cyber war opponents. In either case, the results […]

SCADA Hacking: Finding Vulnerable SCADA Systems using Google Hacking

December 5, 2023January 2, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my tenderfoot hackers! Google Hacking and Dorks As most of you know, Google crawls the globe and stores and indexes the information it finds on nearly every web site and page. Saying this involves a lot of information is an significant understatement. Few people, though, understand that Google has a proprietary language to […]

SCADA Hacking: Anatomy of Cyber War, the Stuxnet Attack

December 2, 2023January 2, 2024Occupy The Web

As you study SCADA/ICS hacking and security, it is useful to look back at some of the most successful SCADA/ICS attacks in history. In this way, you may gain some insight as to how future attacks may attempt to infiltrate your industrial control systems. Among the most famous and ingenious of these SCADA/ICS attacks became […]

Network Forensics, Part 2: Detecting and Analyzing a SCADA DoS Attack

December 2, 2023January 1, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back, my aspiring network forensic investigators! Now that you have a basic understanding of Wireshark and have conducted an analysis of a malware attack using Wireshark, let’s expand our purview of network attacks to that critical but often overlooked area of IT security, SCADA/ICS security. Unlike most attacks on IT security, attacks on SCADA/ICS […]

SCADA Hacking: DoSing a SCADA site

November 30, 2023January 1, 2024Occupy The Web

SCADA and Industrial Control Sites (ICS) are among the most crucial and most vulnerable sites. These sites include everything from nuclear power plants, to home HVAC systems and everything in between. The security of these systems is slightly different than traditional IT systems. In traditional IT systems we are protecting the data. With SCADA/ICS systems […]