CISA warns about Internet-connected UPS devices attacks
By MYBRANDBOOK
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in a joint advisory with the Department of Energy, warned U.S. organizations to secure Internet-connected UPS devices from ongoing attacks.
UPS devices are connected to the Internet to allow admins to perform various remote tasks such as power monitoring and routine maintenance, exposing them to attacks. They are also regularly used as emergency power backup solutions in mission-critical environments, including data centers, industrial facilities, server rooms, and hospitals.
The federal agencies said, “Organizations can mitigate attacks against their UPS devices, which provide emergency power in a variety of applications when normal power sources are lost, by removing management interfaces from the internet.”
The agency recommended mitigation measures including finding all UPSs and other emergency power systems on orgs' networks and ensuring they're not reachable over the Internet. The recommendations also include checking that the UPSs are not using factory default credentials to attackers' attempts to use them and take over the targeted devices.
Threat actors can also use critical security vulnerabilities to enable remote takeovers of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) devices and allow them to burn them out or disable power remotely.
Admins are advised to put the devices behind a virtual private network (VPN), enable multi factor authentication (MFA), and strong passwords or passphrases to hinder brute-forcing attempts.
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