Threats performed by hackers recently become quite fashionable. No wonder that after receiving the email, in which unknown assailants threatened the exception of nuclear reactors, the South Korean energy company Korea Hydro & amp; Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. has decided to treat the matter seriously and check the security status of their power.
The audit results surprised everyone. The software devices connected to the internal network control systems cores one nuclear power reactors malware found. It would not be surprising if not for the fact that the power plant is not connected to the external network. According to the South Korean Ministry of Energy, malware, which was defined as “low-level threat,” appears to have been przywleczone by employees on an unauthorized USB.
There is no evidence that the malware have copied to the power control systems, but the situation that seems to be under control, it puts into question the adequacy of the safety procedures used in the South Korean nuclear power. Especially since most likely in this manner designed in military laboratories Stuxnet US and Israel got to Iranian facilities for uranium enrichment. The discovery gap called BadUSB makes especially in industrial applications, USB has become increasingly dangerous.
Although the problem has been detected and controlled, South Korean ministry examine whether the incident was not involved departments of North Korea.
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