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Industrial control system panels with buttons, gauges, and displays in a factory or power facility setting, with Patch Tuesday notification badges overlaid on c
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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.

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Rockwell Automation Fixes More Than a Dozen Security Flaws Across Its Industrial Software

The manufacturing technology company has issued patches for vulnerabilities in products used to control factory equipment worldwide, including RSLinx Classic and FactoryTalk.

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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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An industrial facility control room with rows of monitoring stations, server racks glowing in the background, and a world map on a wall display with several loc
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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A water utility control room with SCADA screens displaying system operations, while on an adjacent monitor a digital backup shows attackers may possess more com
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: they may have walked out with the only complete copy of control logic the operators ever had.

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An industrial water treatment control room with rows of SCADA monitors and pump system gauges, one screen showing a lockout notification and operator unable to
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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Rockwell Automation Fixes Four Code-Execution Bugs in Arena Simulation Software

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

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An industrial control room showing programmable logic controller interfaces, gauges, and critical infrastructure monitoring systems, with digital threat indicat
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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Illustration: a modern industrial factory floor
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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Illustration for the story: Siemens, Schneider Electric, and Rockwell Fix Dozens of Flaws in Factory Control Systems
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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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