Security researchers have uncovered another nasty piece of malware designed specifically to target industrial control systems (ICS) with a potential to cause health and life-threatening accidents.
Dubbed Triton, also known as Trisis, the ICS malware has been designed to target Triconex Safety Instrumented System (SIS) controllers made by Schneider Electric—an autonomous control system that independently monitors the performance of critical systems and takes immediate actions automatically, if a dangerous state is detected.
Researchers from the Mandiant division of security firm FireEye published a report on Thursday, suggesting state-sponsored attackers used the Triton malware to cause physical damage to an organization.
Neither the targeted organization name has been disclosed by the researchers nor they have linked the attack to any known nation-state hacking group.
According to separate research conducted by ICS cybersecurity firm Dragos, which calls this malware “TRISIS,” the attack was launched against an industrial organization in the Middle East.
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