Thursday, July 23, 2026

US government says Iran-linked hackers are actively disrupting American water and energy providers

Concerning news! Serious stuff! Will the war with Iran further escalate and expand? See also my blog post here.

"The U.S. government is warning that Iranian state-backed hackers are actively breaking in and disrupting industrial control systems at American water and energy providers. This new alert comes months after federal agencies warned of an escalation in hacking from Iranian actors amid the ongoing war.

In an advisory updated Wednesday, the FBI, the NSA, the Department of Energy, and CISA said Iranian hackers were targeting programmable logic controllers on internet-connected operational networks, allowing them to manipulate data on their displays, causing outages and disruption.

The Iranian hackers were initially discovered earlier this year to be targeting controllers made by Rockwell, but the advisory has now expanded the types of industrial control systems under attack to include products from Schneider Electric and Siemens. ..."

US government says Iran-linked hackers are disrupting American water and energy providers | TechCrunch

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