Tag: critical infrastructure
Engineer who locked his own employer out gets prison time
A core infrastructure engineer wiped admin accounts and demanded 20 bitcoin from the firm that employed him.
Wind and solar controls sit wide open on the web
Researchers found 8,547 internet-facing systems at European renewable sites, including turbine dashboards with a live Stop button.
FBI seizes seven domains tied to a Chinese hacking contractor
Federal agents pulled down tooling that a Beijing-linked contractor used to probe power plants, airports and universities worldwide.
A China-tied crew keeps hammering unpatched SharePoint servers
Longlegs and Storm-2603 keep breaching unpatched SharePoint servers to plant Warlock ransomware.
One in five water utilities has logins sitting in infostealer logs
SpyCloud found 1,787 of roughly 10,000 US water organizations exposed, including one infected device holding logins for 167 utility tenants.
Attackers flipped control settings at two Colorado water utilities
Two small Colorado water providers found control settings changed and alarms silenced.
Two tankers boarded as US probes attacks on ships at sea
Coast Guard and FBI teams found malicious activity on vessels hit while underway, exposing how much of a modern ship…
CISA tells lean security teams to booby-trap their own networks
Honeytokens and fake credentials can raise the cost of an intrusion without a single new tool purchase.