Posted on 11/28/2023 7:20:50 AM PST by DFG
The Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa said on Saturday that one of their booster stations had been hacked by an Iranian-backed cyber group.
Matthew Mottes, the chairman of the board of directors for the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, confirmed to KDKA-TV that the cyber group, known as Cyber Av3ngers, took control of one of the stations. An alarm went off as soon as the hack had occurred.
Mottes added that the station, located on the outskirts of town, monitors and regulates pressure for Raccoon and Potter Townships and stressed that there is no known risk to the drinking water or water supply.
The machine that was hacked uses a system called Unitronics, which Mottes says is software or has components that are Israeli-owned.
The system has since been disabled. Members of the Pa. State Police were called to the booster station on Saturday to begin a criminal investigation.
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If this was sponsored by Iran, or the Group sponsored or supported by Iran,
Then it’s an act of war. Hopefully it will be treated as such.
As a former PW director and having gone through several system audits required by to law, since 9/11, to verify the protection of the system from physical and electronic attacks, I am shaking my head that this could happen to a modern-day facility.
The great Henry Mancini grew up in Aliquippa.
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Aliquippa is as Pittsburgh suburb.
It is very near the site where Flight 497 crashed into the side a mountain in September of 1995
From a public safety perspective, I don’t understand the corporate and government push to have any water or energy infrastructure Internet connected, or even just able to get to via the Internet, in any way at all.
Infrastructe “network” comnections should be 100% internal, with anyone within their operations not able to use any Internet connectible device to make those internal connections. Yes, that is two divorced and unconnected systems, one for the water or energy infrastructure operations and a seperate set of devices and connections that, as needed, allow for operations personnel to make external connections.
Meanwhile, The Stupid Party will still be talking about “Hunter’s laptop.”
We are so naive.
As a Retired Water Treatment Plant Operator I can tell You that they are using Internet to connect from Site to Site. That’s how the scumbags are breaching the System. The simple solution is to use Radio Links from the WTP SCADA to the Remote Site(s) and do not connect the WTP SCADA to the Internet AT ALL. The SCADA must be a dedicated Computer that’s ONLY connected to the WTP via hardwired or Radio and to the Distribution System via Radio Links. The speed difference is negligible between a Radio Link and an Internet Link.
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CBS cannot correctly spell Pittsburgh.
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That’s why I call them the A$$M€DIA.
We ran dedicated fiber site to site, back to a water department SCADA system
As long as it’s not connected to any other network then that’ll work. What kind of distance ?
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