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Authorities raise alarm on threats against water, other critical sectors
Dec 4, 2023
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/authorities-threats-water-other-critical-sectors/701431/
- Hackers affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are behind a series of attacks targeting devices used in U.S. water and wastewater facilities, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned in a joint advisory with Israel and other U.S. agencies on Friday.
- The threat group, operating under the name Cyber Av3ngers, is targeting Israeli-made Unitronics Vision Series programmable logic controllers, which are used in water and wastewater plants alongside other sectors, including energy, healthcare and food and beverage manufacturing.
- Authorities said the hackers have compromised devices that use default credentials since at least Nov. 22 with defacing messages and could possibly render them inoperable. At least a half dozen facilities across the U.S. have been impacted, according to a source familiar with the attacks.