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Iranian Hackers' Targeting of US Critical Infrastructure Has Escalated ...
Agencies say the campaign has disrupted operations and caused financial losses at some organizations, and they urged critical infrastructure operators to apply mitigations.
- On Tuesday, CISA and the Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint alert with the FBI regarding Iranian-linked actors targeting programmable logic controllers across critical U.S. infrastructure sectors.
- Lawmakers are questioning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about investment activities before the Iran War began; Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell called related Financial Times reports "entirely false and fabricated."
- These cyber intrusions have already disrupted operations and caused financial losses for multiple organizations, with Iranian-linked groups specifically targeting industrial control systems across energy and water sectors.
- The Trump administration is shifting security priorities, proposing to reduce Transportation Security Administration staff by roughly 8,400 positions while redirecting about $477 million to expand the Screening Partnership Program.
- While the State Department recruits new diplomats following last year's layoffs of more than 1,300 employees, the IRS reports that most staff are complying with return-to-office mandates.
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Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites
Hackers working on behalf of the Iranian government are disrupting operations at multiple US critical infrastructure sites, likely in response to the country's ongoing war with the US, a half-dozen government agencies are warning. In an advisory published Tuesday, the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, National Security Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, and US Cyber Command “urgently" warned that …
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