{"id":1207242,"date":"2023-11-29T19:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207242"},"modified":"2023-11-29T19:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T00:42:01","slug":"2-municipal-water-facilities-report-falling-to-hackers-in-separate-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207242","title":{"rendered":"2 municipal water facilities report falling to hackers in separate breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/municipal-water-800x531-1.jpg\" alt=\"2 municipal water facilities report falling to hackers in separate breaches\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/municipal-water.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"664\" data-width=\"1000\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the stretch of a few days, two municipal water facilities that serve more than 2 million residents in parts of Pennsylvania and Texas have reported network security breaches that have hamstrung parts of their business or operational processes.<\/p>\n<p>In response to one of the attacks, the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in western Pennsylvania temporarily shut down a pump providing drinking water from the facility\u2019s treatment plant to the townships of Raccoon and Potter, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/beavercountian.com\/content\/special-coverage\/iranian-linked-cyber-army-had-partial-control-of-aliquippa-water-system\">reporting<\/a> by the Beaver Countian. A photo the Water Authority provided to news outlets showed the front panel of a programmable logic controller\u2014a toaster-sized box often abbreviated as PLC that\u2019s used to automate physical processes inside of industrial settings\u2014that displayed an anti-Israeli message. The PLC bore the logo of the manufacturer Unitronics. A sign above it read \u201cPrimary PLC.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>WWS facilities in the cross hairs<\/h2>\n<p>The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration on Tuesday published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news-events\/alerts\/2023\/11\/28\/exploitation-unitronics-plcs-used-water-and-wastewater-systems\">advisory<\/a> that warned of recent attacks compromising Unitronics PLCs used in Water and Wastewater Systems, which are often abbreviated as WWSes. Although the notice didn\u2019t identify any facilities by name, the account of one hack was almost identical to the one that occurred inside the Aliquippa facility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987313#p3\">Read 8 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987313&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1987313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 municipal water facilities report falling to hackers in separate breaches<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) In the stretch of a few days, two municipal water facilities that serve more than 2 million residents in parts of Pennsylvania and Texas have reported network security breaches that have hamstrung parts of their business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1207242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}