Title
Attack Induced Common-Mode Failures on PLC-Based Safety System in a Nuclear Power Plant: Practical Experience Report.
Abstract
This paper demonstrates attack induced common-mode failures on an industrial-grade (Tricon) Triple-Modular-Redundant PLC (programmable logic controller) and its impact in a Nuclear Power Plant settings. The attack exploits the fact that during the configuration phase the same control logic is downloaded to all three redundant modules. We describe how an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to embed malicious control logic and how to trigger the attack. The feasibility and the attack impact are evaluated on a testbed, which includes the Tricon PLC as part of a safety protection system in a simulated nuclear power plant.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
PRDC
Computer science,Critical infrastructure,Testbed,Exploit,Software,Control logic,Programmable logic controller,Nuclear power plant,Electricity generation,Embedded system
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bernard Lim100.34
Daniel Chen2553.70
Yongkyu An300.34
Zbigniew Kalbarczyk41896159.48
Ravishankar K. Iyer53489504.32