#critical infrastructure
84 stories taggedcritical infrastructure.
FBI and CISA warn critical infrastructure operators to rein in third-party ICS integrators
A new joint fact sheet asks water, power and manufacturing operators to lock down the outside engineers who quietly run their control systems.
FBI warns foreign hackers raided a US industrial contractor for SCADA blueprints
A March-April 2025 intrusion at an industrial automation firm netted around 800 files on power and transport customers, and the FBI is telling critical infrastructure to rethink how much access it hands to outside integrators.
Securing Siemens PLCs Without Shutting Down the Factory
US agencies are warning that industrial controllers running critical infrastructure are being actively targeted. The advice is sound. Applying it carelessly could cause the very outages attackers are hoping for.
Cisco Patches Eight Flaws in Network Software Used by Telecoms Worldwide, Two Rated Near-Maximum Severity
Cisco's own engineers found the vulnerabilities using artificial intelligence tools. No fixes exist beyond the patches, and two of the flaws score 9.8 out of 10 on the standard severity scale.
Schneider Electric, Siemens, and Aveva patch critical flaws in industrial control systems
September 2026's industrial Patch Tuesday brings fixes for authentication failures, hardcoded encryption keys, and a Linux kernel flaw that lets attackers gain full system control.
Australia's Ageing Government Systems Are a Target for AI-Powered Attacks, Intelligence Chief Warns
The head of a leading Australian signals agency says crumbling legacy infrastructure, technology so old it can't easily be updated, is giving AI-assisted attackers a growing opening.
UK's Food Supply Is Fragile. Hackers Are One of the Reasons Why.
Britain's public spending watchdog says the government hasn't done enough to protect food supplies from climate shocks, disease outbreaks, and cyberattacks. Ordinary shoppers could feel the pinch when the next disruption hits.
100 Tech Giants Warned That AI Is Making Cyberattacks Easier. They Forgot to Mention Who Will Stop Them.
More than 100 companies signed an open letter about AI-powered hacking. A veteran security educator read it closely and found the plan had no people in it.
OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion to Shield Small Water Plants and Local Governments from Hackers
A new program called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders will give subsidised AI security tools to utilities, councils, and other public bodies that rarely have full-time cybersecurity staff.
UK Government Moves to Cut High-Risk Tech Suppliers Out of Critical Infrastructure
Late additions to a new cybersecurity law would give ministers the power to remove or restrict technology providers judged to pose a national security risk, as attacks on supply chains grow more frequent.
CISA Tells Critical Infrastructure Operators to Plan How They'll Talk When the Systems Go Dark
New joint guidance from CISA, the FBI and international partners spells out what utilities and hospitals should say to the public during a major IT or industrial outage, and how to say it before rumours fill the gap.
The US just seized the servers behind China's hacking-for-hire empire
A private Chinese company quietly ran shared attack tools for state hackers targeting NASA, the Federal Reserve, and US hospitals. The FBI just pulled the plug.
US Coast Guard Opens Dedicated Cybersecurity Office for America's Ports and Waterways
A new federal office will write the rules on digital security for the network of ports, ships, and waterways that keeps American trade moving. It arrives after a government watchdog said the Coast Guard's cyber approach had serious gaps.
AI Took Eight Hours and $500 to Copy a Hacking Tool Onto a Second Industrial Controller
Researchers used Anthropic's Claude to adapt a known exploit for water-sector control hardware. It worked, eventually, but it also permanently destroyed one of the test devices.
The Week in Threats: Fake Logins, AI-Powered Botnets, and Shrinking Patch Windows
A 296,000-device botnet, water utilities under scan, and an actively exploited SharePoint chain: this week's pattern is old tricks moving faster.