CISA: Attacks exploiting Unitronics PLCs in water utilities underway

Organizations in the water and wastewater systems sector have been warned by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency regarding ongoing attacks targeted at vulnerable Unitronics programmable logic controllers, one of which has already compromised the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa in Pennsylvania, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

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