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Posted on 08/01/2026 10:42:18 AM PDT by Libloather
Iranian hackers are likely behind a widening cyberattack campaign against US water systems that has reached at least seven states, including more than 30 systems in Minnesota alone, and likely extends further, a cybersecurity expert told JNS on Friday.
“The working assumption is that it is Iranian threat actors,” Annie Fixler, director of the cyber and technology innovation center at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told JNS.
“The kind of behavior matches what we’ve seen out of Iran. The kind of targets and the systems that we’re talking about match.”
Fixler cautioned that no actor has publicly claimed responsibility.
“What we don’t have is anyone claiming responsibility, which is a little surprising,” she said.
“Iranian hackers tend to claim responsibility for stuff because of that ‘perception-hacking’ component, because they want to let everyone know they did it and that they’re really scary and big and bad.”
Minnesota officials said on Tuesday that more than 30 community water systems in the state were targeted in coordinated attacks on July 26 and 27.
The FBI said on Thursday that water utilities in at least seven states reported similar cyber incidents. The other affected states have not yet been identified publicly.
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Inside job?
When it is a state-ordered job involving proxies, as opposed to more grassroots type individual zealot attacks, Iran typically does not take credit.
Inside job by local Jihadis.
Oh no, it can’t be sabotage. The Donald says it isn’t.
In one of his dumbest outbursts yet The Donald has declared it is a spontaneous and mass outbreak of incompetence in the sewer and water works employees of Minnesota. I’m not making this up. He did, he said it yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jORU2DfQrMI
It may not have been Iran but I doubt it was an outbreak of mass incompetence all in the same week, within the same civil sector in the same area.
In one breath he offended not just the water and sewer workers but the entire state of Minnesota. Way to go there Donald. Of course the governor is still a boob.
Good question.
Most likely.
It's Minnesota incompetence.
Could just be locals
Leftist terrorism
You might wanna have a look at this...
From the above...
“...Recognizing that water utilities tend to have less mature cybersecurity programs and, as such, a weaker posture, Markus Mueller, field CISO at Nozomi Networks, wrote in a statement that they tend to rely more on third-party integrators and service providers. “They tend to be underfunded and smaller compared to other utility sectors...”
It gets worse.
I have (yet another) dumb question:
Do these facilities really need to internet connected to function?
They don’t have to do it, I would think. PLCs, stand alone networks, manual operation with human hands can do it.
The internet connection is so the utility can save money by utilizing remote monitoring, vendor support.
Security bedamned.
Golly gee, looks like there’s some decent money to be made in selling remote monitoring software to public water utilities.
Go figure.
I was thinking this is more like Somalia than Iran.
I agree with our President.
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Talk about friendly fire.
That’s basically an act of war.
What the he’ll Congress waiting for,nukes to start flying?😖
Why are these places online?
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