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Modbus

The lingua franca of industrial controllers; unauthenticated by design, so anything that can reach the network can command a chiller or CDU without exploiting a vulnerability.

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>600 apartment buildings / ~2 daysFrostyGoop district-heating incident in Lviv: malicious Modbus commands; the firmware downgrade was a separate actionas of 2024-07-23 · register ↗
Port 502Classic Modbus TCP is unauthenticated, and FrostyGoop used it; Claroty finds over 80% of data-center OT on BACnet/Modbus-class protocolsas of 2024 · register ↗

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