Malware can fully compromise building control systems

Enterprise security vendor ForeScout’s operational technology research unit has developed a PoC (Proof-of-Concept) malware that exposed the vulnerabilities in building automation systems (BAS) by compromising them due to the presence of two very critical bugs in the BAS’s PLC (programmable logic controller). ForeScout researchers claim that the first of the two bugs use a hard-coded secret when the […]