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AVEVA warns of code-execution flaw in Enterprise SCADA software used across pipelines and manufacturing
A high-severity deserialization bug lets an authenticated operator run code inside the industrial control system. AVEVA has shipped patches for every supported release.
AI Agents Ran a Four-Day Hacking Campaign Against Taiwan's Government Systems
Researchers say a cluster of artificial intelligence programs worked in near-total automation to steal credentials, map government networks, and probe a nuclear safety agency, a sign that organised hacking is getting cheaper and faster.
Ransomware Hit Colombia's Justice Ministry Five Days Before a New President Took Office
Files were encrypted, services went down, and ColCERT had warned about exactly this kind of attack the day before. Here is what happened, and why Colombia keeps ending up in the crosshairs.
America's Drinking Water Networks Are Getting a Long-Overdue Security Upgrade
A new Senate bill and a first-of-its-kind monitoring centre launched at DEF CON aim to plug gaping security holes in the water systems that supply millions of American homes.
New Zealand Sanctions 33 Russia-Linked Cyber Operators and Child Abduction Networks
Wellington's latest penalties name hackers and individuals tied to the forced removal of Ukrainian children, signalling that digital warfare now sits alongside human-rights abuses on the sanctions list.
Iranian Hackers Hit Water Systems in at Least 12 US States
New Jersey and Alabama are the latest to confirm attacks on water infrastructure. So far, no taps have run dry and no water has been contaminated, but the campaign is still expanding.
Russian Hackers Used an Obscure Telecom Back Door to Shut Down a Polish Heating Plant
A second cyberattack on Poland's energy sector, running in parallel with a previously disclosed assault, exploited a rarely scrutinised type of private mobile network to reach deep inside a plant supplying heat to 50,000 people.
North Carolina Ports Confirms Cyberattack Slowing Cargo at Wilmington, Morehead City and Charlotte
The state authority activated its cybersecurity contingency plan on August 5 after a system-wide outage forced manual gate operations across all three facilities.
ABB Ability Zenon ships with a MongoDB version that hasn't been patched since 2020
Industrial software used in energy, water and manufacturing plants bundles an old database with flaws that can leak memory and bypass access controls.
Thousands of Rockwell Controllers Sit Exposed Online, With 22 in US Water Attack Cities
Security firm Forescout counted 4,407 industrial controllers reachable from the open internet, and found a small cluster in the same towns recently hit by attacks on water systems.
Cyber Operations Are Now a Core Part of Modern War, Says CrowdStrike Co-Founder
Dmitri Alperovitch argues that hacking campaigns no longer just support military conflicts, they signal them, shape them, and sometimes replace them.
Angola's Biggest Mobile Network Hit by Cyberattack on the Day It Went Public
Unitel, which carries more than two-thirds of Angola's mobile traffic, suffered a crippling attack on July 28, the same morning its shares began trading on the stock exchange. Four days later, 4G and 5G service was still down.
The criminals behind the Minnesota water attacks may have a better backup of your plant than you do
Hackers hit more than 30 small water utilities in two days. The most alarming detail isn't how they got in, it's that they may have walked out with the only complete copy of control logic the operators ever had.
New York Hands $9 Million to 153 Water Utilities to Plug Cyber Gaps
The grants come as hackers step up attacks on water and wastewater systems across multiple US states. Here is what the money buys, and what it means for the people who drink the water.
A Decade of Iranian Cyberattacks on America: What We Know
From wiping casino hard drives to targeting children's hospitals, a pattern of disruptive attacks tied to Iran stretches back more than a decade. Now investigators are asking whether the same playbook was used against water systems in seven US states.