"Temporal reverse engineering."
Arthur put his head in his hands and shook it gently from side to side.
"Is there any humane way," he moaned, "in which I can prevent you from telling me what temporary reverse bloody-whatsiting is?"
This was a first of a kind attack on Poland. Long term pre-positioning. "AI and automation used extensively". There were few effects, was this just a test? It felt like "digital arson". The attack could have been way worse. They might have destroyed turbines. Or stop the energy production, they didn't try. Root causes: simple routine hygiene gaps. Default password, reused passwords, no MFA, non-updated devices, bad segmentation. (THIS IS ALMOST ALWAYS THE CASE, GET THE BASICS RIGHT!)
"So there seems to be eight (or more?) different ways to log in. We started iterating through the numbers and when we hit five, we were immediately logged in." - these people control 1000GW of solar power. Set login type to 5 and you are in!
Technical details on this hack: https://jakkaru.de/articles/sungrow-vulnerability-exposes-gigawatts-worldwide
Chinese company Sungrow had a software vulnerability, which was found by an ethical hacker. The vulnerabilty would have allowed to turn off all EU systems and could have resulted in a massive multi-day EU-wide black out
I hear we lost Margaret Hamilton today. What an absolute legend; Thank you for leading the way, ma'am. RIP
The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
Recorded Future lists infosec.exchange as malware.
Malware category: Trojan
Malware family: FakeUpdates
You've made it, @jerry . 