The Complete Metasploit Guide

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. Some of the SCADA servers located on the internet may have a default username and password. However, due to advances in security, finding one with default credentials is highly unlikely, but it may be a possibility.

Popular internet scanner websites such as https://shodan.io are an excellent resource for finding SCADA servers that are internet facing; let's see the steps we need to perform to integrate Shodan with Metasploit:

First, we need to create an account on the https://shodan.io website:

1. After registering, we can simply find our ...