3 papers
cs.CR2025
Industrial Ouroboros: Deep Lateral Movement via Living Off the Plant
Richard Derbyshire
Lateral movement is a tactic that adversaries employ most frequently in enterprise IT environments to traverse between assets. In operational technology (OT) environments, however,…
cs.CR2025
From Protest to Power Plant: Interpreting the Role of Escalatory Hacktivism in Cyber Conflict
Richard Derbyshire, Diana Selck-Paulsson, Charl van der Walt +1
Since 2022, hacktivist groups have escalated their tactics, expanding from distributed denial-of-service attacks and document leaks to include targeting operational technology (OT)…
cs.CR2023
Dead Man's PLC: Towards Viable Cyber Extortion for Operational Technology
Richard Derbyshire, Benjamin Green, Charl van der Walt +1
For decades, operational technology (OT) has enjoyed the luxury of being suitably inaccessible so as to experience directly targeted cyber attacks from only the most advanced and w…