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Latest Vulnerabilities Found by Claroty’s Team82Highlight Rise of ICS in the Cloud

Claroty, the industrial cybersecurity company, today launched Team82, its new research arm that provides in dispensable vulnerability and threat research to Claroty customers and defenders ofindustrial networks worldwide. Additionally, Team82 released a new report on critical vulnerabilities found in cloud-based management platforms for industrial control systems (ICS), highlighting the rise of ICS in the cloud and the growing need to secure cloud implementations in industrial environments.

Team82, formerly known as The Claroty ResearchTeam, is a multi-award-winning group known for its rapid development of industrial threat signatures, proprietary protocol analysis, and discovery of ICS vulnerabilities. The team is the market leader in ICS vulnerability research, with a total of 146 vulnerability discoveries and disclosures to date, and was the first to develop and release signatures for the notorious Ripple20and Wibu-Systems Code Meter vulnerabilities and the threat actors that target them. Equipped with the industry’s most extensive ICS testing lab, the team works closely with leading industrial automation vendors to evaluate the security of their products.

In its latest report, “Top-Downand Bottom-Up: Exploiting Vulnerabilities in the OT Cloud Era,” Team82researched the exploitability of cloud-based management platforms responsible for monitoring ICS, and developed techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in automation vendor CODESYS’ Automation Server and vulnerabilities in the WAGOPLC platform. Team82’s research mimics the top-down and bottom-up paths an attacker would take to either control a Level 1 device in order to eventually compromise the cloud-based management console, or the reverse, commandeer the cloud in order to manipulate all networked field devices.

“Team82’s latest research was motivated by the reality that organizations in the Industry 4.0 era are incorporating cloud technology into their OT and IIoT for simplified management, better business continuity, and improved performance analytics,” said Amir Preminger, V Presearch at Claroty. “In order to fully reap these rewards, organizations must implement stringent security measures to secure data in transit and at rest,and lock down permissions. We thank the CODESYS and WAGO teams for their swift response, updates, and mitigations that benefit their customers and the ICS domain.”

The new Team82 Research Hub includes the team’s latest research reports, a vulnerability dashboard for tracking the latest disclosures, its coordinated disclosure policy for working with affected vendors, its public PGP Key for securely and safely exchanging vulnerability and research information, and other resources.

To access the Team82 Research Hub, visit claroty.com/team82.

To read the report, “Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Exploiting Vulnerabilities In the OT Cloud Era,” visit: https://claroty.com/2021/07/21/blog-research-exploiting-vulnerabilities-in-the-ot-cloud-era/.

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