US offshore oil and gas installation at 'increasing' risk of cyberattack
The US Government Accountability Office has warned that the time to act on securing the US's offshore oil and natural gas installations is now because they are under"increasing" and"significant risk" of cyberattack.
Striking an air of desperation, the report adds that in 2015 and 2020 the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement initiated efforts to address cybersecurity risks, but"neither resulted in substantial action." Curiously, the report mentions neither the physical attack on gas lines under the Baltic Sea owned by Russia's Nord Stream energy firm, nor– which is perhaps the most well known SCADA system malware of all time. The famous worm was widely credited with crippling the Iranian nuclear weapons program for several years, and according to researchers found its way onto the air-gapped network of the plant on an infected USB stick.
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