How did a furnace in a German iron plant explode? Someone clicked on the wrong email! blogs.wsj/digits/2014/12/18/cyberattack-on-german-iron-plant-causes-widespread-damage-report/ Clicking on a malicious email led to the compromise of industrial control systems. In this case, the cyber attack resulted in massive damage when a furnace in an iron plant could not be shut down. Shades of stuxnet! The incident is described briefly in the new BSI report The State of IT Security in Germany, 2014 which is referenced by the WSJ blog post. The section of the report about this incident begins on page 31 with the section header: 3.3.1 APT-Angriff auf Industrieanlagen in Deutschland Sachverhalt Gezielter Angriff auf ein Stahlwerk in Deutschland. A translation of this section is below: 3.3.1 APT attack on industrial plants in Germany Facts Targeted attack on a steel plant in Germany. Method Means spear-phishing and social engineering a sophisticated attacker gained initial access to the office network the steel mill. From there, they worked successively to access the production networks. Damage Effect It became more frequent failures in individual control components or entire plants. The failures led to a blast furnace could not be brought under control and was in an undefined state. The result was massive damage to the system.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 13:21:46 +0000
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