Botnet malware disguises itself as password cracker for industrial controllers
Industrial engineers and operators are being lured into running backdoor malware disguised as tools for recovering access to work systems.security shop Dragos this month.
All you have to do is purchase the tool, run it on a Windows PC connected to the industrial controller via serial cable, click a button, and the password for the equipment is revealed. Under the hood, the software exploits a vulnerability – tracked asMeanwhile, the software is infecting the PC with the Sality malware.
What's weird is that the malware also deploys code to check the clipboard contents for cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and silently rewrites those details to point to another wallet so as to steal people's funds. Remember, this is running on PCs normally connected to industrial equipment, so perhaps the crooks behind this caper just grabbed some generic nasty to use.
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