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AI Security

AI Took Eight Hours and $500 to Copy a Hacking Tool Onto a Second Industrial Controller

Researchers used Anthropic's Claude to adapt a known exploit for water-sector control hardware. It worked, eventually, but it also permanently destroyed one of the test devices.

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Threat Intelligence

More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit by Hackers in July. Here's What CISA Found.

U.S. cybersecurity officials have put a number on the recent wave of attacks on drinking water and wastewater facilities: over 100 internet-connected systems targeted in a single month, most of them left exposed by a simple modem.

3 min read
Threat Intelligence

Iranian Group Handala Claimed It Could Poison California's Water. Forensics Say Otherwise.

California Water Service brought in Mandiant after Handala threatened disruption. Investigators found no evidence the group ever touched operational technology.

3 min read
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