Sandworm, according to the ICS-CERT report, had built tools for hacking not only the GE Cimplicity human-machine interfaces Trend Micro had noted but also similar software sold by two other major vendors, Siemens and Advantech/Broadwin. The report stated that the intrusions of industrial control system targets had begun as early as 2011 and continued until as recently as September 2014, the month iSight detected Sandworm. And the hackers had successfully penetrated multiple critical infrastructure targets, though none were named in the document. As far as ICS-CERT could tell, the operations
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