Iranian-Linked Hacks Expose Vulnerabilities of US Water System December 27, 2023 By Jamie Tarabay and Katrina Manson In late November, an Iranian-backed hacking group attacked Israeli-made digital controls commonly used in the water and wastewater industries in...
Cybersecurity Agency Warns Water Utilities About Hackers After Pennsylvania Attack December 1, 2023 Hackers are targeting industrial control systems widely used by water and sewage-treatment utilities, potentially threatening water supplies, the top U.S....
Cyberattacks on Renewables: The Stuff of Nightmares for Europe’s Power Sector June 15, 2023 By Nora Buli, Nina Chestney and Christoph Steitz Saboteurs target a nation leading the world in clean energy. They hack into vulnerable wind and solar power systems. They...
Hospitals, Utilities Face Highest Exposure to Risk of Cyber Attacks: Moody’s September 30, 2022 Around $22 trillion of global debt rated by Moody’s has a “high” or “very high” exposure to the risk of...
UK Water Supplier Hit by Cyber Attack, Highlighting Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities August 18, 2022 By Ryan Gallagher A company that supplies water to more than 1.5 million people in the UK disclosed it was hit by a...
White House Rushes to Strengthen Security of U.S. Power Grid as Hacking Threats Grow April 15, 2021 By Shaun Courtney and Michael Riley A White House plan to rapidly shore up the security of the U.S. power grid will begin with a 100-day...
Global Power Grids Are Becoming Increasingly Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks March 4, 2021 More than five years after massive cyber attacks left a quarter of a million Ukrainians without electricity, the world’s power...
Hacker Breaches Florida Treatment Plant Software, Tries to Taint Water February 10, 2021 A hacker gained unauthorized entry into a remote access software system shared by workers at a Florida city’s water treatment...
Nation-State Believed Responsible for ‘Watershed’ Cyber Attack on Industrial Plant December 15, 2017 By Jim Finkle Hackers likely working for a nation-state recently invaded the safety system of a critical infrastructure facility in a watershed attack...
Utilities Warned of ‘Easy-to-Use’ Malware Aimed at Causing Outages June 13, 2017 By Jim Finkle Two cyber security firms have uncovered malicious software that they believe caused a December 2016 Ukraine power outage, they said...