All news with #critical infrastructure tag

🛫 Over the weekend several major European airports experienced check-in and boarding disruptions after a ransomware attack on the external vendor Collins Aerospace. Attackers targeted the MUSE multi-airline check-in system, forcing manual processing of thousands of passengers and causing delays and cancellations to more than 100 flights. Airports affected included Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin Brandenburg, with only minor impact reported in Cork and Dublin. Authorities and the vendor are investigating while restoration efforts continue.

✈️ Collins Aerospace's MUSE check-in platform suffered a cyber-related outage late Friday, forcing airlines and major European airports to revert to manual processes including handwritten tickets, paper boarding passes, laptops and iPads. Brussels was hardest hit with dozens of cancellations; Heathrow and Brandenburg reported delays while operators isolated affected systems. Collins says the disruption is limited to electronic check-in and baggage drop and that manual operations are in place while it works to restore a secure version. Passengers were urged to check flight status and arrive earlier than usual.

🛫 According to Tagesschau, IT service provider Collins Aerospace was hit by a cyberattack on the evening of 19 September, disrupting passenger processing at Berlin (BER), Brussels, Dublin and London Heathrow. Security experts said the incident targeted the multi-tenant environment of the ARINC system that supports check-in, boarding and baggage handling. Affected airports reported partial delays and cancellations while Collins worked to restore services.

✈️ A suspected cyber-attack on a third-party supplier's check-in platform caused widespread flight cancellations and delays at several European airports, including Heathrow, Brussels, Berlin and Dublin. RTX's Muse software, used for check-in, boarding-pass validation and baggage tagging, was reported as the target, forcing some airlines to revert to pen-and-paper processes. Airports posted notices saying recovery work is ongoing and urging passengers to confirm flight status and use online check-in where possible.

🔒 A critical token validation flaw in Microsoft Entra ID could permit full tenant compromise by abusing undocumented, unsigned actor tokens issued by a legacy Access Control Service. Researcher Dirk-jan Mollema showed that when paired with a vulnerability in the deprecated Azure AD Graph API (CVE-2025-55241) those tokens could impersonate any user — including Global Administrators — across tenants without leaving tenant logs. Microsoft confirmed a fix after the July report and later patched the CVE.

🔍 A representative Bitkom survey of 1,002 German companies finds nearly three in four report rising attacks, estimating combined damage at €289 billion. 87% of executives said their organization experienced at least one attack in the past 12 months; 28% now suspect foreign intelligence involvement. Respondents most often pointed to China and Russia (46% each). Insurers report AI-generated false claims, prompting firms and authorities to adopt more holistic, AI-assisted defenses.

🏙️ Smart cities are expanding rapidly—69% of municipalities report strategic agendas and an estimated 83,000 sensors were deployed in 2024—significantly enlarging the attack surface. High-profile incidents (Dallas alarm hack, Washington, DC ransomware, Florida water-treatment manipulation, and Olsztyn transport disruption) show that networked devices can lead to both digital and physical harm. Experts from Accenture, Zebra Technologies, and S2GRUPO warn that legacy devices, fragmented governance, and IT/OT convergence demand zero-trust, segmentation, and coordinated incident response to reduce systemic risk.

⚠️ Hitachi Energy has disclosed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in Asset Suite, affecting versions 9.6.4.5 and earlier. The issues include SSRF, deserialization of untrusted data, cleartext password exposure, uncontrolled resource consumption, open redirect, and improper authentication that can lead to remote code execution. Customers should apply vendor-provided mitigations and upgrades immediately to reduce exposure.

🔔 A vulnerability in Westermo WeOS 5 when IPSec is enabled can allow a specially crafted ESP packet to trigger an immediate device reboot. Westermo reported the flaw and released WeOS 5 version 5.24.0 to address the issue. CISA rates the vulnerability as remotely exploitable with a CVSS v4 score of 8.2 and notes high attack complexity.

🛡️ CISA released nine Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 18, 2025, detailing vulnerabilities, exploits, and mitigations affecting multiple vendors and products. The advisories cover Westermo WeOS, Schneider Electric Saitel RTUs, Hitachi Energy Asset and Service Suites, Cognex In‑Sight devices, Dover Fueling Solutions ProGauge MagLink LX4 devices, plus updates for rail linking protocols and Mitsubishi FA engineering tools. Administrators and operators are urged to review the technical details and apply recommended mitigations promptly to reduce operational and safety risk.

⚠️ Dover Fueling Solutions disclosed critical vulnerabilities in its ProGauge MagLink LX4, LX4 Plus, and LX4 Ultimate tank monitors that may be exploited remotely. Identified issues include an integer overflow (CVE-2025-55068), a hard-coded cryptographic signing key (CVE-2025-54807), and non‑changeable weak default root credentials (CVE-2025-30519), with ratings up to CVSS v4 9.3. Affected firmware must be updated to 4.20.3 for LX4/LX4 Plus or 5.20.3 for LX4 Ultimate; operators are urged to minimize network exposure and place devices behind firewalls.

🔒 Cognex disclosed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in In-Sight Explorer and firmware for the In-Sight 2000/7000/8000/9000 series (versions 5.x through 6.5.1). Identified issues include hard-coded credentials, cleartext management protocols (including telnet and a proprietary TCP 1069 service), weak default permissions, authentication bypass via capture-replay, and insufficient server-side enforcement. CISA assigns high CVSS scores (up to 8.8 v3.1 and 8.6 v4), warns of credential disclosure, configuration manipulation, and potential denial-of-service, and recommends migration to newer In-Sight Vision Suite systems and network isolation.

⚠️ Schneider Electric disclosed OS command injection vulnerabilities in Saitel DR and Saitel DP RTUs that could allow execution of arbitrary shell commands when BLMon is invoked in an SSH session. Two issues (CVE-2025-9996, CVE-2025-9997) carry a CVSS v4 base score of 5.8 (v3.1 6.6). Affected firmware versions are Saitel DR <= 11.06.29 and Saitel DP <= 11.06.33; fixed firmware releases are available and require a reboot. Schneider recommends restricting BLMon access, firewalling SSH, and following standard patching and ICS best practices.

⚠️ Hitachi Energy disclosed a critical deserialization-of-untrusted-data vulnerability affecting Service Suite (versions prior to 9.6.0.4 EP4) that permits unauthenticated remote access via IIOP or T3 to compromise Oracle WebLogic Server. The issue is tracked as CVE-2020-2883 with a CVSS v4 base score of 9.3 and is characterized as remotely exploitable with low attack complexity. Hitachi Energy advises updating affected instances to version 9.8.2 or the latest release and applying vendor mitigation guidance immediately. CISA additionally recommends minimizing network exposure, isolating control networks behind firewalls, using up-to-date VPNs for remote access, and performing risk and impact assessments prior to deploying defensive changes.

⚠ A critical remote code execution flaw, CVE-2025-5086, has been observed being exploited in the wild against Delmia Apriso, Dassault Systèmes' manufacturing operations platform. CISA added the issue to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with a CVSS score of 9.0, yet the vendor has provided minimal public guidance. Researchers report exploit scans and a circulating sample that was detected by only one AV engine, underscoring urgent patching challenges for manufacturers.

🚨In August 2025 organizations worldwide faced an average of nearly 2,000 cyber attacks per week, a small 1% decline from July but a notable 10% increase year‑over‑year. The agricultural sector was hit particularly hard, recording a 101% rise in incidents compared with August 2024. While overall attack volume shows tentative stabilization, the shifting distribution of threats across industries, regions and attack vectors underscores the urgent need for targeted defenses, stronger risk management and improved incident readiness.

⚠️A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-40804) affects Siemens SIMATIC Virtualization as a Service (SIVaaS), exposing a network share without authentication and allowing remote actors to access or modify sensitive data. Calculated scores are CVSS v4 9.3 and CVSS v3.1 9.1 with low attack complexity. Siemens advises contacting Technical Support; CISA recommends isolating control systems, minimizing internet exposure, and using layered defenses.

🚨 A European DDoS mitigation provider was hit by a massive packet-rate flood that peaked at 1.5 billion packets per second. FastNetMon detected the assault, which originated from thousands of compromised customer premises devices, including IoT units and MikroTik routers across more than 11,000 networks. The malicious traffic was primarily a UDP flood and was mitigated in real time using the customer's scrubbing facility, ACLs on edge routers, and packet inspection. FastNetMon warned this trend requires ISP-level filtering to prevent large-scale abuse of consumer hardware.

⚠️ The Czech National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NUKIB) is urging operators of critical infrastructure to avoid using Chinese technology or transferring user data to servers in China, citing a reassessed High risk of significant disruption. NUKIB confirmed malicious activity by Chinese cyber-actors, including an APT31 campaign against the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and warned that Chinese law can permit state access to data held by domestic providers. The guidance is not an outright legal ban, but entities covered by the Czech Cybersecurity Act must include the threat in their risk analyses and adopt appropriate mitigations.

⚠️ Bridgestone has confirmed a limited cyber incident affecting several North American manufacturing facilities, including plants in Aiken County, South Carolina, and Joliette, Quebec. Some sites remained operational while others halted or adjusted shifts, and employees were given differing pay options depending on local decisions. Bridgestone Americas says forensic analysis is ongoing and that containment measures were implemented quickly. The company stated it does not believe any customer data or interfaces were compromised.