“Malware Meets Industrial Safety System and the Consequences”
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A Middle East Industrial Safety System was recently attacked with malicious malware designed specifically to enable the damage or destruction of industrial equipment. This malware known as Triton, or Trisis, aimed to interfere with or shut down completely Schneider Electric’s Triconex safety instrumented system (SIS) The SIS are used by human operators to monitor industrial processes in order to detect potentially dangerous conditions, triggering alerts or shutdowns to prevent accidents or deliberate acts of sabotage which could result in an explosion, damaged machines, property destruction, injury or loss of human life. Triton is one of less than a handful of known cases worldwide where malware has been specifically designed and executed to sabotage industrial control systems and the attack appeared to be a sophisticated state-sponsored style coordinated attack on the organisation plant. This presentation will give an overview of the attack timeline, highlight the capabilities of the malware and the attack flow, and explain just how the attackers compromised the SIS device.