A group of security researchers in Israel has discovered vulnerabilities in the Siemens S7 Simatic architecture that ultimately allowed them to build a phony engineering workstation that was able to ...

BLACK HAT USA — Las Vegas — Security researchers who built a phony engineering workstation that was able to dupe — and alter — operations of the Siemens S7 programmable logic controller (PLC) found ...

Claroty, meanwhile, has taken those efforts a step further using a newly-discovered vulnerability that bypasses the PLC sandbox within Siemens’ Simatic S7-1200 and S7-1500 PLC CPUs to run native code ...

Security researchers have found a way to extract a global encryption key that was hardcoded in the CPUs of several Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC) product lines, allowing them to ...

Siemens has issued a security alert about the company’s Simatic S7-1500 programmable logic controllers (PLCs) after security researchers at Positive Technologies reported “serious vulnerabilities” ...

This class describes SIMATIC S7-1500 PLCs and the various S7-1500 modules. This class also summarizes the capabilities of the STEP 7 Professional (TIA Portal) software used to configure and program S7 ...

Team82, the research arm of New York-based industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty, revealed on October 11, 2022, that they managed to extract heavily guarded, hardcoded cryptographic keys embedded ...

Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers, the same PLC family exploited by the Stuxnet malware, are in the crosshairs of a password-cracking tool that is capable of stealing credentials from ...

In 2009, the computer worm Stuxnet crippled hundreds of centrifuges inside Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant by targeting the software running on the facility’s industrial computers, known as ...

Thanks to a plug-in for the widely used Simatic S7 PLCs from Siemens, applications created with version 5.6 of the no-code vision software Merlic from MVTec Software can be more easily integrated into ...