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🔒 CISA released guidance that examines why legacy industrial protocols are often insecure-by-design and why available protections are not widely adopted. Developed with OT equipment manufacturers and standards bodies, the document reports findings from interviews with asset owners and operators about motivations to secure communication and barriers they face. The guidance identifies practical, operational, and technical obstacles and offers recommendations for owners and operators and manufacturers to drive more usable, sustainable security capabilities.

⚠️ A cyber actor compromised OT and ICS in Poland's energy sector in December 2025, affecting renewable plants, a combined heat and power facility, and a manufacturing company. Attackers gained access via vulnerable internet-facing edge devices, deployed wiper malware, destroyed HMI data, corrupted firmware, and damaged RTUs, causing loss of view and control. Production continued at some sites, but operators could not monitor or control systems as designed. Stakeholders are urged to enable firmware verification, change default credentials, and replace end-of-support edge devices.

🔒 CISA released Barriers to Secure OT Communications: Why Johnny Can’t Authenticate to help operational technology (OT) owners, operators, integrators, and manufacturers adopt more secure communications. Based on interviews with stakeholders across Water and Wastewater, Transportation, Chemical, Energy, and Food and Agriculture sectors, the guide explains why insecure legacy industrial protocols persist and how threat actors can impersonate devices or alter messages. It identifies practical barriers—cost and complexity, latency and bandwidth, inspection issues from encryption, and interoperability with legacy products—and offers actionable recommendations to reduce friction and improve usability when procuring, deploying, and maintaining secure OT communications.

🔍 A study by OMICRON based on multi-year deployments of its StationGuard IDS across more than 100 substations, power plants, and control centers found pervasive cybersecurity and operational shortcomings. Passive network monitoring exposed unpatched PAC devices, undocumented external connections, weak segmentation, and incomplete asset inventories—issues often visible within 30 minutes of connection. The findings emphasize the need for protocol-aware, network-level detection and automated asset discovery to meet frameworks such as IEC 62443 and NIST.

🔒 Cyble's Annual Threat Landscape Report 2025 (published Jan 15, 2026) found a sharp rise in attacks against industrial environments, with ICS vulnerability disclosures nearly doubling to 2,451 across 152 vendors in 2025. The report highlights an August spike (802 disclosures) and Q3 accounting for 45.26% of disclosures. HMI and SCADA systems were increasingly exploited, with Siemens and Schneider among the most affected vendors. Cyble warns threat actors — including ransomware groups and coordinated hacktivists — will focus on exposed HMI/SCADA and VNC takeovers in 2026.

🔒 Siemens and CISA report an authorization bypass in multiple Siemens Industrial Edge and related devices (CVE-2025-40805) that can allow an unauthenticated remote attacker who knows a legitimate user's identity to impersonate that user. Siemens has released firmware and software updates for many affected models and is preparing additional fixes. Where updates are not yet available, Siemens and CISA advise network isolation, minimizing internet exposure, use of secure remote access (VPNs), and other compensating controls to limit risk.

🔒 Schneider Electric disclosed vulnerabilities in EcoStruxure Power Build Rapsody that can cause memory corruption and buffer overflows when importing project (SSD) files. Two tracked issues — CVE-2025-13844 (double free, CVSS 5.3) and CVE-2025-13845 (use-after-free, CVSS 7.8) — may allow local attackers to execute code if a user opens a malicious file. Schneider released regional fixed builds; users should install the appropriate update, restart services, and follow recommended mitigations if patching is delayed.

⚠️ Festo SE & Co. KG and CISA report that numerous Festo firmware products contain undocumented remote-accessible functions and missing port/protocol documentation, tracked as CVE-2022-3270 with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8. An unauthenticated remote attacker could leverage these undocumented protocol functions to cause full loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Festo intends to address the issue by updating technical user manuals in the next product versions; operators should meanwhile reduce network exposure, enforce firewalls, and use VPNs and encrypted links.

🔔 CISA published two Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Advisories: ICSA-25-364-01 for WHILL C2 Wheelchairs and ICSA-25-345-03 for AzeoTech DAQFactory (Update A). The advisories describe identified vulnerabilities and recommended mitigations. Administrators and users are encouraged to review the technical details and apply mitigations promptly to reduce exposure.

⚠️ CISA has published an updated Industrial Control Systems advisory, ICSA-25-177-01 (Update B), addressing multiple vulnerabilities affecting Mitsubishi Electric air conditioning systems and associated operational components. The advisory outlines technical findings, potential impacts to building automation and HVAC control networks, and prioritized mitigation steps. Administrators and operators should review the guidance promptly, apply vendor updates where available, and implement network segmentation and enhanced monitoring to reduce risk.

🔒 Modern water and wastewater systems face accelerating cyber threats as utilities adopt remote sensors, cloud telemetry, and integrated SCADA. Critical safeguards—multi-factor authentication, network segmentation, and unified IT/OT visibility—are often missing, increasing risk from nation-state actors and ransomware. Utilities should prioritize comprehensive asset inventories, containment architectures, anomaly detection (e.g., FortiNDR, FortiSIEM), and regularly tested recovery plans to meet rising federal expectations.

🔔 CISA released 12 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories detailing vulnerabilities and mitigation guidance across multiple vendors, including Johnson Controls, Siemens, and AzeoTech. The notices call out specific products such as iSTAR, SINEMA Remote Connect Server, and DAQFactory, plus open-source and medical-imaging components. Administrators and operators are encouraged to review the technical details and apply recommended mitigations to reduce exploitation risk.

🔒 CISA reports a critical authentication bypass (CWE-306, CVE-2025-13607) affecting multiple India-deployed CCTV products, including D-Link DCS-F5614-L1. The flaw permits unauthenticated remote retrieval of device configuration and account credentials with low attack complexity and high impact. D-Link has released a software update for the DCS-F5614-L1; users should install the patch, verify firmware versions, and minimize network exposure while seeking guidance from other vendors.

🔔 CISA published three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories addressing vulnerabilities in Universal Boot Loader (U-Boot) (ICSA-25-343-01), the Festo LX Appliance (ICSA-25-343-02), and several India-based CCTV camera models (ICSA-25-343-03). Each advisory provides technical details, impact assessments, and recommended mitigations. CISA urges system operators, vendors, and administrators to review the advisories promptly and apply available updates or compensating controls to reduce operational risk.

⚠️ U-Boot contains an improper access control vulnerability in volatile memory holding boot code (CVE-2025-24857) affecting all U-Boot versions prior to 2017.11 and several Qualcomm SoCs. Successful exploitation could allow arbitrary code execution; CISA reports a CVSS v4 base score of 8.6 with low attack complexity. Vendors advise upgrading to v2025.4, ensuring physical device security, and contacting Qualcomm support where appropriate.

⚠️ This joint advisory from CISA, FBI, NSA, and international partners details opportunistic intrusions by pro‑Russia hacktivist groups—CARR, NoName057(16), Z‑Pentest, and Sector16—against OT/ICS environments. Actors are exploiting internet‑exposed VNC services, using open‑source scanning and brute‑force tools to access HMI devices with default or weak credentials, causing loss of view, configuration changes, and operational downtime. The advisory urges organizations to reduce public exposure, apply network segmentation, enforce strong authentication (MFA where feasible), harden device credentials, and follow secure‑by‑design guidance for OT products.

🔒CISA, alongside the FBI, NSA, DOE, EPA, the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, and international partners, published a joint advisory describing opportunistic pro-Russia hacktivist activity targeting operational technology (OT) systems. These groups exploit minimally secured, internet-facing VNC connections to access OT control devices and have caused varying impacts, including physical damage. Named actors include Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, Z-Pentest, NoName057(16), and Sector16. The advisory recommends reducing internet exposure of OT assets, adopting mature asset-management and mapping practices, and enforcing robust authentication.

⚠️ Festo SE & Co. KG's LX Appliance contains a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability tied to the video.js library (CVE-2021-23414) that can allow crafted course content to execute scripts in high-privilege user sessions. The issue affects LX Appliance versions prior to June 2023 and has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.1. Festo coordinated disclosure with CERT@VDE and published advisory FSA-202301. Administrators should update affected appliances and apply recommended network isolation and secure remote access controls.

🚨 CISA added CVE-2021-26828 — an OpenPLC ScadaBR unrestricted file upload vulnerability — to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog after evidence of active exploitation. The flaw allows dangerous file types to be uploaded, a frequent attack vector that poses significant risks to federal networks. Under BOD 22-01 federal agencies must remediate cataloged CVEs by required dates; CISA also urges all organizations to prioritize remediation.

⚠️ Mirion Medical's EC2 Software NMIS BioDose versions prior to 23.0 contain multiple high-severity vulnerabilities (CVSS v4: 8.7) that are remotely exploitable and can enable code execution, data disclosure, and unauthorized access. The issues include incorrect permission assignment, client-side authentication, and hard-coded credentials affecting installed executables, the embedded SQL Server, and database accounts. Mirion recommends updating to v23.0 or later; CISA advises isolating control networks, minimizing exposure, and using secure remote access while performing impact analysis.