Assessment of Low-Budget Targeted Cyberattacks Against Power Systems - Inria - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique Accéder directement au contenu
Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2019

Assessment of Low-Budget Targeted Cyberattacks Against Power Systems

Résumé

The security and well-being of societies and economies are tied to the reliable and resilient operation of power systems. In the next decades, power systems are expected to become more heavily loaded and operate closer to their stability limits and operating constraints. On top of that, in recent years, cyberattacks against computing systems and networks integrated in the power grid infrastructure are a real and growing threat. Such actions, especially in industrial environments such as power systems, are generally deemed feasible only by resource-wealthy nation state actors. This chapter challenges this perception and presents a methodology, named Open Source Exploitation (OSEXP), which utilizes information from public infrastructure to assess an advanced attack vector on power systems. The attack targets Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) which depend on Global Positioning System (GPS) signals to provide time-stamped circuit quantities of power lines. Specifically, we present a GPS time spoofing attack using low-cost commercial devices and open source software. The necessary information for the instantiation of the OSEXP attack is extracted by developing a test case model of the power system in a digital real-time simulator (DRTS). DRTS is also employed to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of the developed OSEXP attack methodology. The presented targeted attack demonstrates that an actor with limited budget has the ability to cause significant disruption to a nation.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
485996_1_En_12_Chapter.pdf (1.52 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)
Loading...

Dates et versions

hal-02321773 , version 1 (21-10-2019)

Licence

Paternité

Identifiants

Citer

Xiaorui Liu, Anastasis Keliris, Charalambos Konstantinou, Marios Sazos, Michail Maniatakos. Assessment of Low-Budget Targeted Cyberattacks Against Power Systems. 26th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration - System on a Chip (VLSI-SoC), Oct 2018, Verona, Italy. pp.232-256, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-23425-6_12⟩. ⟨hal-02321773⟩
50 Consultations
36 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More