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“During the weekend, Iranian threat actors hacked the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa (MWAA) and took control of one of their booster stations.”

Pierluigi Paganinisecurityaffairs.com ↗

The station regulates water pressure for Raccoon and Potter Townships. The attackers chose it because it ran a Unitronics Vision controller with Israeli-owned parts. That was the entire targeting logic. A Pennsylvania town’s water pressure became a target over where a PLC vendor is based, and the authority’s defense is that the water was never affected.