"Researchers Uncover Vulnerabilities in Devices Used at Industrial Facilities"

After 2015 when Russian hackers were able to hack three Ukrainian power companies, some security experts took it on themselves to show how protocol gateways could be exploited at other utilities.  New research has been conducted by researchers at Trend Micro, where they tested five protocol gateways, which are small boxes that translate communications between different devices at industrial facilities, including those that monitor temperatures and interact with machinery. They found multiple vulnerabilities, the most critical of which, if exploited, could allow an adversary to disable sensors for monitoring a facility’s temperature and performance. Other issues found by the researchers include a weak encryption implementation and a bug that could allow an attacker to send malicious packets to the gateways, forcing them to reboot.

CyberScoop reports: "Researchers Uncover Vulnerabilities in Devices Used at Industrial Facilities"