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Utilities Facing Brute-Force Attack Threat

ICS-CERT is warning utilities and other critical infrastructure providers about potential brute-force attacks against control systems with SSH command-line access. This is just the latest in a series of high-profile vulnerabilities affecting critical infrastructure of power plants, hospitals, prisons, even prisons. The attackers are probing Port 22/TCP, the default SSL listening port, to look for SSH. Last summer, researcher Dillon Beresford demonstrated a backdoor in Siemens S7-300/1200 devices that allowed him to get inside and capture passwords.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/utilities-facing-brute-force-attack-threat/d/d-id/1102697

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