An Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Bringing a Physical ICS Penetration Testing Environment to Life (Part 2)


This is the second in a three-part series on building and using a testing bench for Industrial Control Systems (ICS).

In this series, Rapi7 researchers will build a physical test bench, review program logic to find flaws, perform manual exploitation of commonly used ICS protocols such as Modbus, then develop malware to automatically exploit the bench to cause flooding.

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Source: Rapid7


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