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What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how

Kaspersky ICS CERT reported roughly 40 attacks on industrial plants in its quarterly roundup, including an incident at an Israeli food producer where an intruder manually opened gas cooler and receiver valves, flooding compressors with liquid CO2 and destroying them. The report highlights that knowing how attacks occur is key to preventing them.

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Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned them open. Liquid CO2 flooded the compressors and destroyed them. The replacement units did not match the originals, so the whole system had to be reworked and recharged with gas. That incident is one of roughly forty in Kaspersky ICS CERT’s quarterly roundup of attacks on … More

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