re: #43 Sergey Romanov

DHS was talking about how Anon allegedly might have an intent to attack the grid and power plants. Where does Anon figure in this story? I don’t see a mention in prof’s pastebin posting of any Anon activity associated with this case.

Here it is for everyone to see:

[Link: pastebin.com…]

DHS Bulletin: Anonymous Hacktivist Threat to Industrial Control Systems (ICS)

The loosely organized hacking collective known as Anonymous has recently expressed an interest in targeting industrial control systems (ICS
…
. Anonymous does have the ability to impact aspects of critical infrastructure that run on common, internet accessible systems (such as web-based applications and windows systems) by employing tactics such as denial of service. Anonymous’ increased interest may indicate intent to develop an offensive ICS capability in the future. ICS-CERT assesses that the publically available information regarding exploitation of ICS could be leveraged to reduce the amount of time to develop offensive ICS capabilities.

That’s what happened in this case. they used an internet accessible system to make water pumps give false reading until the pumps failed.