NSA warns that cybercriminals are targeting this one critical component that the energy, chemical, food, agriculture, and transportation sectors rely on - here's what we know
- Agencies warn of attacks on ATG systems
- Attackers exploit weak credentials and SQL injection
- Mitigation includes stronger passwords and removing internet exposure
Critical infrastructure organizations should move to harden their Automatic Tank Gauge (ATG) systems to defend against ongoing attacks. This is the warning given earlier this week by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and other agencies.
In a joint press release, these agencies said they were “aware of malicious cyber activity targeting US-based automatic tank gauge systems.”
“The authoring organizations urge ATG owners and operators to defend against this malicious activity by securing their ATG systems with strong passwords and by removing them from the internet to reduce public exposure.”
A list of mitigations
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