Hacker attacks on the U.S. water supply
According to the company «Applied Control Solutions», an unknown group of hackers to penetrate into the IT system of wastewater treatment plants in the United States of America. This has not yet been able to do to anyone.
The result of a hacker attack on the control of water treatment plants became the U.S. failure of one pump that was used for water supply. Experts do not exclude the fact that hackers were able to partially or completely take control of other equipment and computer room, which establishes the system of supervising water treatment and water supply. According to Joe Weiss, managing partner of the company Applied Control Solutions, the attack of hackers has become the first carried out in practice. Prior to this incident, attackers failed to control industrial machinery purification stations and water supply.
It is assumed that the attacker to use the specialized software that works on the principle of the Trojan, which carried out the invasion of SCADA-system station. At present the company did not say who could commit such a crime. The press center of the company said only that the hackers were carried out with Russian IP-address. However, the specialists do not exclude the possibility that the IP-address is a dummy and the real culprits of the incident nothing to do with Russia do not have. Joe Weiss also noted that the company because of the special importance of infrastructure, subjected to attack, now works not only with the audit client, but also with U.S. law enforcement according to the seo blog. Learn more about Website Thumbnails!
The attack on the station for cleaning and water supply in the United States was committed, and discovered the attack only two days later. Conducted on the heels of an investigation revealed that hackers discovered unauthorized access to the main systems providing work station in automatic mode. Due to this they were able to take control of control equipment. Hackers illegally turned on and off equipment, and changed the settings in the control system equipment. All details related to breaking of water-treatment plant, were not disclosed. However, experts say the attack fits into the previously published predictions of the possibility of a hacker’s attacks on industrial facilities and critical infrastructure. Some time ago, an worm Stuxnet, its malicious activities were directed to attack the industrial equipment of nuclear power plants. Now very common virus was the same principle of action – Duqu. The big downside SCADA-systems is that they are working on an “as is” basis and update the software is extremely rare.