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Benedict Collins

Suspected Iranian cyberattack on key US infrastructure probed by security agency

A water treatment plant.

A US water treatment facility has been breached by hackers exploiting the poor default security measures of Unitronic programmable logic controllers (PLCs).

PLCs were confirmed as the source of the breach by Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), but the agency stated that the hackers had not affected the water within the facility.

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