How Russia Might Come After the West

 

The DDoS attack surge that began last week against Ukrainian government agencies and banks was a bad sign. I was actually preparing a post and wondering if it was appropriate to call out Russia as, at that point, there was no formal attribution. 

But c’mon. 

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Wrapping Up 2020 with Dale Peterson

Wrapping up my year on December 31, I was delighted to join ICS cybersecurity luminary Dale Peterson for his December: ICS Security Month in Review episode of the Unsolicited Response Podcast. Dale was kind enough to invite me on to discuss the big stories of December 2020 and to throw out some predictions on what’s in store for us in 2021. Here I’ll present a quick teaser of our discussion; I encourage you to listen to the full podcast.

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Three Things the SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Can Teach Us

 Just in case you missed it, a software supply chain attack on the US government and industries is consuming the waking hours of everyone involved in cyber security this week. The attack involved the insertion of a compromised DLL infected with the SUNBURST malware directly into the DevOps environment of SolarWinds’ Orion network monitoring and management software. It was a cunning and subtle infiltration: the package was signed with a valid...

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Who Infected Schneider Electrics’ Thumbdrive?

 

On 24 August 2018 Schneider Electric issued a security notification alerting users that the Communications and Battery Monitoring devices for their Conext Solar Energy Monitoring Systems  were shipped with malware-infected USB drives.

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Building (or Losing) Trust in our Software Supply Chain

Back in 2014, when I was managing Tofino Security, I became very interested in the Dragonfly attacks against industrial control systems (ICS). I was particularly fascinated with the ways that the attackers exploited the trust between ICS suppliers and their customers. Frankly, this scared me because, as I will explain, I knew that all the firewalls, antivirus, whitelisting, and patching in the world would do little to protect us from this threat.

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