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Simple ‘FrostyGoop’ malware responsible for turning off Ukrainians’ heat in January attack
The attack is the latest in a string targeting Ukrainian critical infrastructure and illustrates the growing ease of targeting industrial systems.
Malware targeting the widely-used Modbus industrial communication protocol was responsible for more than 600 apartment buildings in Ukraine losing heat for two days in January, according to a new report by cybersecurity firm Dragos.
The malware, which Dragos has named FrostyGoop, uses Modbus to allow attackers to further attack industrial-controlled systems (ICS). Dragos said it was able to determine FrostyGoop was responsible for the outage when The Cyber Security Situation Center (CSSC), a part of the Security Service of Ukraine, shared information related to an attack targeting a municipal energy company in Lviv.
Dragos says FrostyGoop is the first ICS-focused malware that uses the Modbus protocol to cause a physical disruption to operational technology (OT).
https://cyberscoop.com/frostygoop-ics-malware-dragos-ukraine/
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