Digital Warfare Podcast Daily Brief April 27, 2026

The Digital Warfare Podcast · Apr 27, 2026 · 5m

Summary

Nozomi Networks Labs researchers found that attackers can chain three CODESYS Control runtime vulnerabilities to replace a legitimate industrial control application with a backdoored version. The attack requires Service-level credentials, but those credentials may be obtained through default passwords, compromised engineering workstations, or exposed password hashes. Once authenticated, an attacker can download the active boot application, steal cryptographic material, inject malicious machine code, restore the tampered application, gain root execution after restart, and escalate to…