Cybersecurity

March 12, 2019

The NCCIC has updated this advisory with additional information on the technical details of the affected products and mitigation measures. Read the advisory at NCCIC/ICS-CERT.

November 13, 2018

Microsoft has released its monthly update to address vulnerabilities in its software. For this month, Microsoft has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office SharePoint, ChakraCore, Team Foundation Server, Skype for Business, Visual Studio, and NuGet. Read the update at Microsoft.

IT cybersecurity policies and processes do not directly translate to the OT environment, but that does not mean they are not useful. In a recent post, industrial cybersecurity firm Verve Industrial Protection suggests there is great value in applying the rigor of IT systems management to OT systems. As industrial organizations embrace the need for OT specific policies, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. Well-developed IT policies should be used as a starting point and adapted for OT environments.

In its just released Security Intelligence Report (SIR), Microsoft points to supply chain attacks as being responsible for numerous high-profile incidents in 2018. These included a massive campaign to deliver the Dofoil Trojan through a peer-to-peer application’s update package. Dofoil carried a cryptocurrency mining payload and exhibited advanced cross-process injection techniques, persistence mechanisms, and evasion techniques.