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The short answer is: we don’t know yet, but the No. 1 suspect is the Iranian government. As of today, officially, the U.S. government has yet to name the culprit behind the coordinated wave of hacks. However, the first incidents in Minnesota came days after the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that Iranian hackers were targeting internet-connected devices in water systems and the energy sector, without saying where those attacks were occurring. (CISA had originally published this warning in April, and updated it before the Minnesota attacks.) After the init
What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities | TechCrunch… Only after Krebs contacted CISA did the agency take the repository offline and revoke and replace all of the exposed credentials to prevent any potential future abuse. CISA said that no customer or mission data was exposed in the incident and thanked the researcher and reporter for their help. …
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… CISA had originally published this warning in April, and updated it before the Minnesota attacks. …