Towards Understanding Man-on-the-Side Attacks (MotS) in SCADA Networks
@inproceedings{Maynard2020TowardsUM, title={Towards Understanding Man-on-the-Side Attacks (MotS) in SCADA Networks}, author={Peter Maynard and Kieran McLaughlin}, booktitle={ICETE}, year={2020} }
We describe a new class of packet injection attacks called Man-on-the-Side Attacks (MotS), previously only seen where state actors have "compromised" a number of telecommunication companies. MotS injection attacks have not been widely investigated in scientific literature, despite having been discussed by news outlets and security blogs. MotS came to attention after the Edward Snowden revelations, which described large scale pervasive monitoring of the Internet's infrastructure. For an advanced…
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