Feds: APTs Have Tools That Can Take Over Critical Infrastructure

Threat actors have built and are ready to deploy tools that can take over a number of widely used industrial control system (ICS) devices, which spells trouble for critical infrastructure providers—particularly those in the energy sector, federal agencies have warned. In a joint advisory, the Department of Energy (DoE), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI caution that “certain advanced persistent threat (APT) actors” have already demonstrated the capability “to gain full system access to multiple industrial control system (ICS)/supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) devices,” according to the alert.

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