BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT — It’s a serious threat to the nation’s critical infrastructure that not enough people are talking about. That’s the view of cybersecurity experts who worry about a spate of recent attacks acceso local supply facilities per mezzo di the U.S. While the number of attacks is small and the damage has been limited, experts say that individual cybercriminals and nation-state actors looking for holes per mezzo di America’s critical infrastructure have found an gara open door, all too easily, per mezzo di an of enormous concern.
The attacks acceso utilities have quasi per mezzo di small and remote communities – Alquippa, Pennsylvania and Muleshoe, Texas, to name two – a fact that may explain the limited public attention. But recent reports from cybersecurity experts and a warning from the White House have boosted the profile of the threat. Mandiant issued a report this month tying Russian hackers to a breach of facilities per mezzo di Texas; per mezzo di December, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that CyberAv3ngers, a group linked to Iran, was “actively targeting and compromising” facilities; and other attacks have been traced to Discesa.
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