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Benedict Collins

US water facility OT infrastructure is under attack again

Water treatment.

Hostile nations seem to be dead-set on damaging critical US infrastructure, as Russia has joined the fray with the likes of Iran and China in launching cyber attacks against water facilities.

Vulnerable operational technology (OT) used in US water and energy infrastructure are prime targets for state-sponsored actors looking to potentially poison water supplies or erode trust in energy reliability, with Chinese-backed probing suspected to be practice for if the two superpowers were to go to war.

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