CISA Urges Water Sector to Protect OT After Coordinated Attacks on PLCs
CISA is urging water and wastewater utilities to lock down internet-exposed controllers, days after intrusions hit dozens of Minnesota systems. The post CISA Urges Water Sector to Protect OT After Coordinated Attacks on PLCs appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is urging water and wastewater system (WWS) operators to protect operational technology (OT) against malicious activity targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
The alert is a fresh call to action that comes just days after a coordinated cyberattack disrupted automated controls at dozens of water utilities in Minnesota.
In an alert published July 30, CISA said it is observing a significant increase in threat actors targeting PLCs in the water and wastewater sector, and urged critical infrastructure owners, operators, and integrators to remove publicly exposed PLCs and other OT from the internet as soon as possible.
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