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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 alongside 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 and water plants bundles an old database carrying flaws that can leak memory and sidestep 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: 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.
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.