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Threat Intelligence

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.

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Threat Intelligence

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.

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Threat Intelligence

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.

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Threat Intelligence

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.

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Vulnerabilities

Rockwell Automation Fixes Four Code-Execution Bugs in Arena Simulation Software

A crafty booby-trapped file is all it takes to trigger the flaws. Hospitals, defence contractors and supply-chain firms all run the software.

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Policy & Regulation

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.

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Vulnerabilities

A malformed packet can knock Rockwell's Flex 5000 Adapter offline until someone power-cycles it

Rockwell Automation has patched a denial-of-service flaw in a widely deployed factory-floor module. The fix ships as firmware 6.012.

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Vulnerabilities

Siemens, Schneider Electric, and Rockwell Fix Dozens of Flaws in Factory Control Systems

Three of the world's biggest industrial equipment makers patched a wave of security flaws in the software that runs power plants, factories, and water systems. Here is what that means in plain English.

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