Industrial routers on the front line of attacks

Attacks on operational technology (OT) are growing more automated and indiscriminate, Forescout Research- Vedere Labs’ latest honeypot analysis shows just how aggressively adversaries are probing industrial systems. New data shows industrial routers are now the most attacked devices in OT environments, drawing 67 percent of all malicious activity in Forescout’s 90-day honeypot analysis. The most common attacks were brute force authentication attempts via SSH and Telnet, accounting for 72 percent of requests, while HTTP and HTTPS attacks made up 24 percent, primarily exploit attempts and malware download activity. Of the malware attacks RondoDox accounted for 59 percent, followed by Redtail… [Continue Reading]