Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Is this war? State of Emergency was called

Russian cyber attackers hack Texas Panhandle drinking water and flood town in first-ever raid by 'Kremlin aligned' group

CARR, formerly Sandworm, is just a front for the GRU

  • If true, the hack would be the first-ever disruption of a US water system by Russia
  • Others like Iran and China have already been accused, and feds are investigating
  • A hacking group allied with the Russian government took credit for the scandal
Russian hackers claiming to be backed by the Kremlin are believed to have remotely accessed a Texas town's water tower.

The suspected hack in the Texas Panhandle town in January would be the first-ever disruption of a US drinking water system by Russia, after Iran and China - behind similar attacks - have already been called out.

The hack in Muleshoe, a community of 5,000 not far from the New Mexico border, led to the tower overflowing for almost an hour.

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I had not heard about this before.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

When you're incompetent, it's convenient to have an enemy at hand to blame.

Even if it's true, we should be prepared for these attacks and be able to prevent them.

The Land of the Free has become the Land of excuses.