CISA Warns of Hackers Targeting Industrial Systems with “Unsophisticated Methods” Amid Lebanon Water Hack Claims

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that malicious hackers continue to be capable of compromising industrial control systems (ICS) and other operational technology (OT) using “unsophisticated methods” – suggesting that much more still needs to be done to secure them properly. In an advisory posted on CISA’s website yesterday, the agency said that internet-accessible industrial systems could be vulnerable to a number of methods of compromise, including exploitation of default credentials and brute force attacks. Notably, CISA chose to particularly highlight…