{"id":85351,"date":"2026-08-10T08:32:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85351"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:33:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T13:33:53","slug":"city-declares-emergency-after-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/city-declares-emergency-after-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"More Municipal Cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><em>From Dark Reading:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">Cyberattacks against water and wastewater systems\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/12-states-face-cyberattacks-water-systems-sources\/story?id=135348482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-airgap-id=\"36\">reportedly<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">\u00a0have reached at least a dozen states, with threat actors exploiting low-complexity attacks against industrial controllers. The intrusions, possibly linked to the Iranian government, prove the US&#8217;s water infrastructure remains dangerously exposed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ContentParagraph ContentParagraph_align_left\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">In recent weeks, water and wastewater organizations associated with a number of different US states have disclosed cyberattacks against their systems. Minnesota\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/ics-ot-security\/minnesota-water-utility-attacks-expose-sector-cyber-risks\" target=\"_self\" data-discover=\"true\">was the first<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">\u00a0to confirm such attacks late last month, saying that cyberattackers targeted operational technology (OT) systems for more than 30 water systems. Around the same time on July 30, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) updated an earlier advisory warning of &#8220;a significant increase in cyber-threat actors targeting programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\"><a class=\"ContentText-BodyTextChunk ContentText-BodyTextChunk_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/water-cybersecurity-mdr-services-def-con-franklin\/827449\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-airgap-id=\"37\">Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ContentText ContentText_variant_bodyNormal\" data-testid=\"content-text\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" data-testid=\"content-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"> <em> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/ics-ot-security\/multistate-water-system-attacks-widen-iran-suspected\">[For Full Story<\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mywabashvalley.com\/federal-executions\/william-lecroy-executed-at-u-s-penitentiary\/\">]<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>From Yahoo:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/da9dcbd3d3009e25def33593c15175d9a2684c68adbfe244f008f8e2d2117dd5\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w840_h560%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp\/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fla_times_articles_853%2F6bea0a8aeb7c05ec9c98c95a0f686d68\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The City Council for Suisun City declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack forced the municipality to shut down its information technology network.\u00a0The attack affected the communication operations of the fire and police departments in the Northern California city, including the routing of 911 calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dark Reading: Cyberattacks against water and wastewater systems\u00a0reportedly\u00a0have reached at least a dozen states, with threat actors exploiting low-complexity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85385,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85351\/revisions\/85385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}