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Sead Fadilpašić

US government confirms Iran is behind cyberattacks on water companies

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Iranian hackers were apparently behind recent attacks on US water plants, according to the findings of the government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

CISA has published a joint advisory together with the FBI, the NSA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), noting a hacker (or a group) with the alias “CyberAv3ngers” targeted Unitronics programmable logic controllers (PLCs), endpoints usually used by firms in the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector. 

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