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Cyber-Kinetic Incidents Timeline
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Targeted Attack – US Natural Gas Operator Shuts Down for 2 Days – Ransomware
US natural gas compression facility shuts down for 2 days after an attack on OT. A cyber threat actor used spearphishing to obtain initial access to IT network before pivoting to its OT network. Organization decided to shut down. It…
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Malfunction – Soyuz Rocket Failure Linked to a Programming Error
Russian rocket failed to deploy 19 satellites it was carrying. Instead of releasing them into the orbit, it sent them toward Earth burning them up in Earth’s atmosphere. It appears that the cause can be tracked to a programming error.
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Malfunction – Fatal Military Aircraft Crash Linked to a Software Fault
A military plane crash in Spain killing four crew members was probably caused by accidental deletion of files that its engines required in order to correctly interpret engine readings.
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Research – Test Demonstrates Vulnerabilities of a Commercial Aircraft
Passenger jet controls hacked remotely while on the runway by a team of US government, industry and academic officials.
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Research – Tests Show Vulnerabilities of Superyachts
Researcher Campbell Murray demonstrated the ease with which superyacht navigation, communication and Wi-Fi systems could be controlled remotely by hackers.
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Research – Tests Show Vulnerabilities of Industrial Robots
Trend Micro researchers demonstrated multiple attack vectors in industrial robots that are vulnerable to attack by hackers.
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Research – Tests Show Vulnerabilities of ICS Systems to Ransomware
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers David Formby and Raheem Beyah demonstrated a ransomware targeting industrial control devices.
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Research – Test Defeats Geofencing Safeguards on Drones
Team has demonstrated vulnerabilities in drone geofencing safeguards that are meant to protect airports, military installations and major events. By compromising the system, the researchers were able to instruct the drones to go above the airport without pilot’s control.
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Research – Researchers Remotely Take Control of Cars
Researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated vulnerabilities of computerized systems that control throttle, braking and steering of popular passenger vehicles. Chinese researchers demonstrated similar vulnerabilities, and my team has demonstrated the ability to remotely take partial control of multiple…
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Research – Test of Smart Rifles
Researchers Runa Sandvik and Michael Auger demonstrated a hack of a smart rifle that uses computer-aided aiming. Researchers managed to prevent the gun from firing, make it miss its target, and even tweak the targeting system so precisely that the…
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Research – Tests of Traffic System Vulnerabilities
Researcher Cesar Cerrudo demonstrated the ease with which sensors and control systems could be compromised with false data that could cause widespread system disruption.
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Research – Researcher Defeats Key Card Locks
At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas developer Cody Brocious demonstrates a hack of key card locks that are in use in four million hotel rooms.
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Research – Tests of Insulin Pumps
Researchers Jerome Radcliffe and Barnaby Jack each demonstrated vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to administer fatal doses of insulin to diabetic patients.
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Research – Tests of Defibrillators and Pacemakers
Cybersecurity researchers at the University of Leuven in Belgium and the University of Birmingham in England reported that they were able to successfully hack into ten different implantable cardioverter defibrillators using relatively inexpensive, easily obtainable electronic components and a radio antenna.
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Research – Aurora Generator Test
Researchers demonstrated how power generators could be compromised and caused to explode by remote hackers.
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