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Illustration: a dimly lit industrial control room at a water treatment plant
Policy & Regulation

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.

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Illustration: a dimly lit industrial control room, rows of SCADA monitors showing abstract pipeline and grid schematics
Threat Intelligence

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.

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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
Vulnerabilities

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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An industrial control room with SCADA systems and power grid monitoring displays, overlaid session token streams with weak encryption indicators highlighted in
Vulnerabilities

Schneider Electric patches weak-randomness flaw across dozens of grid control products

A session-management bug rated 8.3 affects protection relays, gateways and SCADA software used in power, water and chemical plants worldwide.

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A computer screen displaying code and error messages in red, with overlaid visualization of data packets being intercepted and diverted, representing active exp
Cloud Security

Hackers Are Actively Attacking MLflow and FUXA to Steal Cloud Secrets

Two open-source tools used by AI teams and factory operators are being scanned and broken into in the wild, with attackers using one flaw to grab cloud login keys.

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An industrial control room with SCADA system displays showing pipeline and manufacturing equipment monitoring, a security alert panel highlighting a code execut
Vulnerabilities

AVEVA warns of code-execution flaw in Enterprise SCADA software used across pipelines and manufacturing

A high-severity deserialization bug lets an authenticated operator run code inside the industrial control system. AVEVA has shipped patches for every supported release.

4 min read
Industrial control system screens for energy and water infrastructure running on displays, with a MongoDB database version number from 2020 visible in the syste
Vulnerabilities

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.

3 min read
An industrial SCADA software interface on a desktop computer with a booby-trapped design file icon visible in a folder, and malicious code execution warnings ap
Vulnerabilities

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.

3 min read
A data center facility with infrastructure management systems visible on control panels, showing highlighted devices that are dangerously close to network perim
Vulnerabilities

One in Five Data Centre Systems Is One Step Away From Hackers, Research Finds

A study of 174,000 data centre infrastructure devices found that roughly 32,000 sit just one network hop from the open internet, putting cooling, power and fire systems within easier reach of attackers than most operators realise.

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A water treatment plant's control room with darkened screens and disabled automation systems, operators working manually with printed readouts, one facility's g
Threat Intelligence

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.

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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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A factory floor with industrial control panels displaying dated interfaces and green monochrome screens, connected via tangled cables to modern equipment, showi
Vulnerabilities

The Machines That Run the World Are Running Decades-Old Software

Industrial control systems keep factories, water plants, and power grids alive. They also run code written before Wi-Fi existed. Fixing that is harder than it sounds.

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Illustration for the story: Siemens, Schneider Electric, and Rockwell Fix Dozens of Flaws in Factory Control Systems
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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