NEWS - March 08, 2011

Malware Attacks Decline In SCADA, Industrial Control Systems, Report Says

"But targeted, stealthy attacks like Stuxnet and APT-type attacks against industrial control systems are expected to rise"

Malware accounts for close to one-third of all real-world industrial control system security incidents recorded in the Security Incidents Organization's Repository of Industrial Security Incidents (RISI) database, according to a new report published by the SIO. But while malware incidents showed a marked decline since 2003 among the 60 incidents chronicled in the report, the advent of Stuxnet is expected to change all of that.

Eric Byres, author of the 2011 "Report on Cyber Security Incidents and Trends Affecting Industrial Control Systems Resulting from Malware Infections" report and CTO with Byres Security, says the reason for the overall decline in malware-borne attacks and infections on power plants and other industrial control systems is that "noisy" malware is out -- and stealthy, targeted malware is in.

Continued @ Dark Reading