BlackEnergy a threat to Industrial Control Systems network security

Authors

  • Sejal Raval Instrumentation and Control Engineering Department, Govt.Polytechnic, Ahmedabad

Keywords:

Industrial Control Systems ( ICS ), SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS),Cyber Emergency Response Team(CERT), advance persistent threat (APT), human machine interface (HMI), Simple Mail Transfer Pprotocol(SMTP),Transfer Control Protocol(TCP), Hyper Text Transfer Protocol(HTTP), Master Boot Record (MBR), personally identifiable information (PII), Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

Abstract

BlackEnergy is an advanced malware that has been exploiting vulnerabilities in Linux- and Windows-based human machine
interface products. HMIs are software interface that provides facility to users to monitor and communicate with industrial control
systems. HMI can be dashboard type or graphical interface type. BlackEnergy malware targets at critical infrastructure, these
security violation cause different cooperation and communications issues than the normal theft of personally identifiable
information or financial information.

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Published

2015-12-25

How to Cite

Sejal Raval. (2015). BlackEnergy a threat to Industrial Control Systems network security. International Journal of Advance Research in Engineering, Science & Technology, 2(12), 120–125. Retrieved from https://ijarest.org/index.php/ijarest/article/view/370

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 12 (2015): Volume: 02, Issue: 12 - December, 2015.

Section

Articles