Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Fundamentals of testing SCADA

Let's understand the basics of exploiting SCADA systems. SCADA systems can be compromised using a variety of exploits in Metasploit, which were added recently to the framework. In addition, some of the SCADA servers that are located might have a default username and password, which rarely exist these days, but still there may be a possibility.

Let's try finding some SCADA servers. We can achieve this using an excellent resource, such as http://www.shodanhq.com:

1. First, we need to create an account for the Shodan website.
2. After registering, we can simply find our API key for the Shodan services within our account. Obtaining the API key, we can search various services through Metasploit.

3. Let's try to find the ...