A Homeland Security Department cyber response team focusing on industrial control systems has issued a warning to the natural gas pipeline industry of targeted cyberattacks that have compromised some networks.
According to the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), a partner organization of US-CERT, the attacks were discovered in March and have been going on for at least five months, using well-crafted spear-phishing e-mails targeting specific individuals.
Various sources provided information to ICS-CERT describing targeted attempts and intrusions into multiple natural gas pipeline sector organizations, the public alert states.
Analysis of the malware and artifacts associated with these cyberattacks has positively identified this activity as related to a single campaign with spear-phishing activity dating back to as early as December 2011. Full Article at GCN:
According to the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), a partner organization of US-CERT, the attacks were discovered in March and have been going on for at least five months, using well-crafted spear-phishing e-mails targeting specific individuals.
Various sources provided information to ICS-CERT describing targeted attempts and intrusions into multiple natural gas pipeline sector organizations, the public alert states.
Analysis of the malware and artifacts associated with these cyberattacks has positively identified this activity as related to a single campaign with spear-phishing activity dating back to as early as December 2011. Full Article at GCN:
