CISA still finds water system controls exposed online amid multistate hacks
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ByDavid DiMolfetta,
Cybersecurity Reporter, Nextgov/FCW
August 6, 2026 02:53 PM ET
The agency is working with the FBI to help victims but is not attributing the cyber intrusions to any group, acting director Nick Andersen told Nextgov/FCW.
LAS VEGAS — Federal cyber officials are still finding water system controls exposed to the public internet, even as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI help utilities recover from a series of cyberattacks affecting at least 12 states, acting CISA Director Nick Andersen told Nextgov/FCW on Thursday.
“We’re seeing things like [programmable logic controllers] that are open and accessible on the internet with either no password set or default password set,” Andersen said in a brief interview on the sidelines of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference. “We’re not making ourselves hardened targets.”
Programmable logic controllers, commonly dubbed PLCs, are small...
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