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mark11 · Member Joined: 30 Mar 2014 Posts: 114

The Infiltration of U.S. Control Systems
CERT Alert TA18-074A removed any doubts that hostile nation-states are actively targeting U.S. industrial control systems.

On March 15, 2018, a cyber-attack on industrial control systems (ICS) had actually happened.
Of course, many attacks on ICSs have happened before, but this one—with the backing of a nation-state—is the one that has been most feared.

This incursion, conducted by Russia, is not of the kind that can be classified alongside hacks by disgruntled employees, rogue hackers looking to extort funds, or corporate espionage attempts.
The Russian hacking of U.S. critical infrastructure and manufacturing is different.
It is an act of modern warfare with industry in its crosshair.
In its TA18-074A Alert on the attack, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT), noted that the Russian government has targeted “U.S. Government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and critical manufacturing sectors.”
The U.S. government considers the critical manufacturing sectors to be the primary metal, machinery, electrical equipment and transportation equipment manufacturing industries.
Read more on:
https://www.automationworld.com/article/industry-type/all/infiltration-us-control-systems

Some independent hackers have a completely vision about this:
They detect an unusual traffic data between China servers and Russians servers in a precedent period.
It seems that Russian's servers has been effectively used by some attackers...from China and N. Korea...