From the article: "In the wake of a cyberattack on a Western Pennsylvania water utility, federal officials are urging infrastructure operators to tighten their security — and they’re warning that another attack could be coming...
...In the attacks, hackers affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. penetrated programmable logic controllers, or PLCs — industrial computers made to control heavy machines that are used in factories and public utilities.
In this case, the PLCs were made by Israel and are used in plants throughout the United States, the FBI said. Officials said the attacks were an apparent retaliation for U.S. support for Israel as that nation wages a bloody war with Hamas, the terrorist group that attacked Israelis in a stunning and deadly operation in early October."
#CharlesDurant, Director Field Intelligence Element: FBI: Cyberattack Against Aliquippa Water Authority In Western Pennsylvania, Was A Targeted 'Escalation' On Overlooked Technology- Suspected: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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'In the wake of a cyberattack on a Western Pennsylvania water utility, federal officials are urging infrastructure operators to tighten their security — and…