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Threat Intelligence firm mistakes research for nation-state attack

Bloomberg published a story based on honeypot scans that looked at attacks against industrial-control systems. The U.S. was the top source of attacks, followed by China, Russia, and the Netherlands. ThreatStream said the honeypots that were scanned for the Bloomberg story did not advertise any legitimate services. The scans likely came from a researcher for Digital Bond, Inc. who was performing tests for a talk at DerbyCon last weekend. The researcher’s research project to enumerate ICS applications and devices was the likely source of the data.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2689609/threat-intelligence-firm-mistakes-research-for-nation-state-attack.html

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