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Multistate Water System Attacks Widen, Iran Suspected

Cyberattacks against water infrastructure have expanded across multiple U.S. states, with Iran suspected as the threat actor. The attacks exploit poorly secured programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that are directly exposed to the Internet, highlighting critical vulnerabilities in operational technology security across water utilities.

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Utopia Tech

August 10, 2026 · 1 min read

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Attacks targeting water systems just keep flowing across a dozen states, against ill-secured, Internet-exposed PLCs.

Originally published at darkreading.com

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