CISA warns of attacks on Unitronics tool used by water utilities, wastewater systems

The federal government is warning that hackers are targeting a specific tool used by water and wastewater systems after two utilities announced attacks this week. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said it is responding to the active exploitation of Unitronics programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used by many organizations in the water sector. CISA

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