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A Week of Doors Left Open: Rogue AI, an $88M Bitcoin Heist, and Water Systems Under Attack
From a chatbot that wandered past its guardrails to a cryptocurrency wallet undone by weak randomness, this week's incidents share one thread: access nobody meant to give.
Iran-Linked Hackers Hit Water Systems Across at Least Seven US States
Michigan, South Dakota, and Georgia are among the states confirmed to have had water infrastructure targeted. This is not a Minnesota problem.
Iranian hackers suspected in attack on 30 US water systems
A wave of cyberattacks hit Minnesota water infrastructure on Sunday and Monday, briefly cutting supply to one town. Investigators say the methods match a known Iranian-linked group, though formal attribution has not yet been made.
When a Browser Stops Trusting a Certificate Authority, Nobody Owns the Aftermath
Google's 2024 decision to drop Entrust from Chrome was technically correct. What happened next exposed a gap that no government agency, standards body, or industry forum is built to fill.
CISA Warns Hackers Are Breaking Into Water Plant Controllers Left Exposed on the Internet
The US cyber agency says attackers are locking operators out of the small industrial computers that run water systems, forcing boil-water notices and manual operations.
Schneider Electric patches a nasty file-parsing bug in its industrial control software
A booby-trapped design file could let attackers run code inside IGSS, the SCADA tool used to monitor factories, energy sites and manufacturing plants worldwide.
US and Australia Publish Joint Playbook for Cutting Critical Infrastructure Off From Cyber Attack
New guidance tells power plants, water utilities, and other essential services how to keep running even when their networks are under attack or must be disconnected entirely.
More Than 30 Minnesota Water Utilities Hit in Coordinated Cyberattack
Attackers knocked out automated controls at water and wastewater plants across the state on July 26 and 27. Drinking water stayed safe, but one city briefly shut its plant down entirely.
US and Australian agencies publish playbook for cutting critical systems off in a crisis
New joint guidance tells power, water and transport operators how to run in isolation when a cyberattack or geopolitical crisis forces the plug to be pulled.
Frenos Raises $1.52 Million More to Test Factory and Power-Grid Security Without Touching the Real Thing
The startup runs fake cyberattacks inside a virtual copy of your industrial network, so it can find the dangerous paths before real criminals do.
Most AI Models Fail New Malware-Investigation Test Inspired by Nuclear Sabotage
A benchmark built around a real industrial-attack case shows that today's leading AI systems struggle to follow a malware investigation all the way to a conclusion.
US Agencies Warn That Iranian Hackers Are Targeting Industrial Control Systems Made by Siemens, Schneider Electric, and Rockwell Automation
An updated federal advisory names the specific techniques used to break into programmable logic controllers, the computers that run factories, water plants, and power grids.
Why Stolen Logins Keep Opening the Door to Power Grids and Water Plants
Attackers rarely need fancy exploits when a valid password and an unchecked laptop will do. A look at why device trust is the missing half of Zero Trust in critical infrastructure.
SecurityWeek Launches Awards Programme to Spotlight Industrial Cybersecurity's Best Work
A new independently judged awards scheme will recognise the people and technologies making a real difference in protecting factories, power grids, and critical infrastructure.
Bit2Watt: How a Regular Cloud Customer Could Wobble the Power Grid
Researchers at Zhejiang University say a paying cloud tenant with ordinary GPU access can swing a data centre's electricity draw hard enough to shake the grid, no hacking required.