DE unknown german steel mill 2015 Malware Attack (Q9729)
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DE unknown german steel mill 2015 Malware Attack
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A data breach risk event
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January 2015
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A German steel factory suffered massive damage after hackers managed to access production networks, allowing them to tamper with the controls of a blast furnace, the government said in its annual IT security report. The report, published Wednesday by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), revealed one of the rare instances in which a digital attack actually caused physical damage. The attack used spear phishing and sophisticated social engineering techniques to gain access to the factorys office networks, from which access to production networks was gained. Spear phishing involves the use of email that appears to come from within an organization. After the system was compromised, individual components or even entire systems started to fail frequently. [ Also on ITworld: Low an (English)
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