Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2026
After attacks hit 30+ Minnesota water systems, CISA urged utilities to remove internet-exposed PLCs and strengthen OT security. Between Sunday and Monday, July 26 and 27, a coordinated cyberattack hit operational technology (OT) systems at more than 30 community water utilities across the state, according to Minnesota IT Services (MNIT). “A coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2026
Coordinated OT cyberattacks hit 30+ Minnesota water utilities, briefly disrupting one plant. Backup procedures prevented major water service impacts. Minnesota just had its own live-fire lesson in what happens when someone targets water utilities at scale. Between Sunday and Monday, July 26 and 27, a coordinated cyberattack hit operational technology (OT) systems at more than […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2026
Poland’s ABW confirmed hackers breached ICS at five water plants, gaining ability to alter equipment settings. Russia-linked APT groups suspected. Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) has published a detailed account of a sustained campaign targeting the country’s water plants, documenting security breaches at five water treatment facilities in 2025. The incidents mark one of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2026
Hackers breached Venice ’s San Marco flood system, claiming control of pumps and the ability to disable defenses and flood coastal areas. The technologies that govern the physical world are the quiet infrastructure of modern life. From energy grids to water systems, from factories to flood defenses, operational technology (OT) has long had one essential […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2026
Exposed ICS devices and insecure protocols like Modbus increase risks to critical infrastructure, enabling disruption, data access, and potential sabotage. Malware targeting industrial control systems (ICS) poses a serious risk to critical infrastructure, with threats like Stuxnet, Industroyer, Triton, Havex, and BlackEnergy already demonstrating the ability to disrupt operations, cause outages, and even inflict physical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2025
CISA, FBI, EPA, and DoE warn of cyberattacks on the U.S. Energy sector carried out by unsophisticated cyber actors targeting ICS/SCADA systems. The US cybersecurity agency CISA, the FBI, EPA, and the DoE issued a joint alert to warn of cyberattacks targeting US-based organizations in the oil and natural gas sector. Unsophisticated threat actors are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2024
Microsoft discovered two flaws in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus that remote, unauthenticated attackers could exploit. Microsoft responsibly disclosed two vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation PanelView Plus that remote, unauthenticated attackers can exploit to perform remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS). The RCE vulnerability in PanelView Plus involves exploiting two custom classes to upload and load […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2023
Mandiant reported that Russia-linked Sandworm APT used a novel OT attack to cause power outages during mass missile strikes on Ukraine. Mandiant researchers reported that Russia-linked APT group Sandworm employed new operational technology (OT) attacks that caused power outages while the Russian army was conducting mass missile strikes on critical infrastructure in Ukraine in October. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2023
MITRE and CISA released a Caldera extension for OT that allows the emulation of attacks on operational technology systems. MITRE Caldera is an open-source adversary emulation platform that helps cybersecurity practitioners to automate security assessments. The tool is built on the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which is a widely-recognized framework for understanding and responding to cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2023
16 vulnerabilities in Codesys products could result in remote code execution and DoS attacks exposing OT environments to hacking. Microsoft Threat Intelligence researchers discovered 16 high-severity vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as CoDe16, in the CODESYS V3 software development kit (SDK). An attacker can trigger the flaw to gain remote code execution and conduct denial-of-service attacks under specific conditions, […]
