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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Energy released a joint advisory warning for U.S. organizations to secure Internet-connected uninterruptible power supply (UPS) devices from ongoing cyber assaults.
UPS devices are regularly used as emergency power backup solutions in mission-critical environments and are also equipped with an internet of things (IoT) capability, enabling the administrators to carry out power monitoring and routine maintenance. But as is often the case, such features also expose them to malicious attacks.
“The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Department of Energy are aware of threat actors gaining access to a variety of internet-connected uninterruptible power supply (UPS) devices, often through unchanged default usernames and passwords,” 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.”
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