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European ICS / OT Cybersecurity Trends 2022 – 2023
Geopolitical Conflict Changes the Calculus
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 illustrated the impact of geopolitical conflict and physical warfare on cybersecurity , particularly in industrial infrastructure sectors . Industrial sectors in Ukraine were hard hit with a high number of operations targeting electric and oil and gas sectors in concert with kinetic military action , as well as hacktivist activity that have held steady .
On February 25 , 2022 , the day after Russia invaded Ukraine , the ransomware group Conti declared that if a cyber attack or warfare were directed against Russia , Conti would use “ all possible resources to strike back at the critical infrastructure of an enemy .” 1 On February 27 , an adversary uploaded a video to Twitter demonstrating how to alter a Russian Fornovogas Human Machine Interface ( HMI ) used with a gas compressor . The video features an unknown operator clicking through menus on the HMI , altering the off-delay time , exiting the HMI software , deleting the profile configuration , and browsing to the host operating system root user configuration directory . The action and capabilities , though not impactful , were consistent with trending popularisation of ICS / OT hacktivism immediately following Russian invasion in Ukraine . p
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