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SCADA Workstation Infected by W32/Korgo Worm

Event Year
2004
Reliability
Confirmed
Country
United States
Industry
Power and Utilities

Description

The SCADA operator workstations got hit with the W32/Korgo worm virus. They were out of service starting at 14:33 and one terminal was back by 16:15. The first terminal was back by 18:23. These three terminals were on the corporate Intranet outside the SCADA firewall.

Impact

Immediate installation of a Microsoft patch on all impacted workstations to correct the problem. Then rolled out Anti-virus software and the same Microdoft patch on all other SCADA workstations inside the SCADA fireweall. A new subnet and screening router for these three Intranet connected workstations was put into place.