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Cyber risk, intrusions and federal guidance affecting US water and wastewater utilities.
CISA and six partner agencies updated AA26-097A on July 22, extending the vendor scope beyond Rockwell and adding detection guidance for tampered reusable code modules.
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The FBI and EPA's advisory I-073026-PSA blames a water-sector campaign across at least seven states on MicroLogix controllers left reachable on the open internet. The remedy they describe is network placement.
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WaterISAC is adding Cyware's threat intelligence platform to speed alerts to US water utilities, including 20,000 small systems it serves with a rural partner. Its director says utilities have little incentive to replace old controllers that still work, so the answer is faster warnings.
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Detection at the first hop forced CISA's red team onto donated access at Organization B. It did not stop the team reaching the same sensitive systems it reached at Organization A.
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Washington's first state-level cyber pilot swaps rulemaking for donated vendor labor, which leaves an unanswered question about who pays to fix what the red teams find at Texas water utilities after month six.
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The billion is credit against OpenAI's own products rather than cash, aimed at water, grid, local government and open-source defenders, and OpenAI wants it consumed within six months, which turns model-assisted triage into a procurement question.
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The governor's office raised an Iranian-backed campaign against drinking water systems and would not say whether the two Colorado utilities hit in late August were part of it. Both remain unnamed.
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SpyCloud measured stolen-credential exposure across 10,000 EPA-registered water and wastewater organizations and found it at nearly one in five, with the sharpest single case sitting on a supplier's machine.
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