MITRE ATT&CKtechnique

T0813 Denial of Control

Published 2020-05-21 Modified 2025-04-15 Official page ↗
Domain
ics
Tactics
Impact
Platforms
None
Version
1.1
Created
2020-05-21

Description

Adversaries may cause a denial of control to temporarily prevent operators and engineers from interacting with process controls. An adversary may attempt to deny process control access to cause a temporary loss of communication with the control device or to prevent operator adjustment of process controls. An affected process may still be operating during the period of control loss, but not necessarily in a desired state. In the 2017 Dallas Siren incident operators were unable to disable the false alarms from the Office of Emergency Management headquarters.

Related

Tactic · MITRE ATT&CK (1)

Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · mitigates (3)

  • M0953 Data Backup mitigation
  • M0810 Out-of-Band Communications Channel mitigation
  • M0811 Redundancy of Service mitigation

Referenced by MITRE ATT&CK · uses (4)

  • C0066 2026 U.S. Water Utilities Attacks campaign
  • C0028 2015 Ukraine Electric Power Attack campaign
  • C0020 Maroochy Water Breach campaign
  • S0604 Industroyer software (malware)

References