In search of additional mining facilities, hackers are increasingly attacking industrial enterprises — since September 2017, an increase in the number of such attacks has been recorded. Reports The center of reaction to incidents of information security of industrial infrastructures "Kaspersky Lab"about it.
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So, starting from February 2017 until now, viruses-manners was infected 3.3% of computers related to industrial automation systems.
"The most popular vector of infection was the Internet-88% of all attacks, removable media — 23% and network folders of enterprises — 2%. Most often were used in the attacks on the miners Win32 — 57,12% of all attacks, Win64 — 36,46%, and the JavaScript of 28.65%", — said experts.
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Cryptocurrency miners installed in industrial networks work imperceptibly for users. However, despite the fact that cryptocurrency mining software is relatively harmless, it greatly increases the load on processors and reduces bandwidth.
"In automated systems of technological process control response time is of great importance. Its increase may reduce control over technological processes and thereby cause serious damage to the company," — said the researchers of Kaspersky Lab.
Recall that in early February, FSB officers detained engineers of a closed nuclear center in the city of Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region, who tried to mine bitcoins on a supercomputer.