SCADA malware caught infecting European energy company

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/12/scada_malware/ via @theregister

Security researchers have identified a strain of malware that has already infected at least one European energy company.

The malware, dubbed SFG, is related to an earlier sample called Furtim, that created a backdoor on targeted industrial control systems. This backdoor might be used to deliver a payload which could be used to “extract data or potentially shut down the energy grid,” security researchers at endpoint security firm SentinelOne Labs warn.[....]