Upper Galilee Irrigation Systems Crippled by Cyberattack

There have been reports of several water monitors malfunctioning on Sunday due to a cyberattack targeting monitoring systems that monitor irrigation systems and wastewater treatment systems. 

It has been found that specific water controllers used to irrigate fields in the Jordan Valley, as well as the Galil Sewage Corporation’s sewage control system, were damaged as a result. 

To resolve the issue and restore performance to the systems in both major domains, managers of both major systems pushed their teams to work Sunday morning on the issue. There is no information about the source of the cyberattack. 

It was reported several days earlier that a cyberattack was planned in the region. In the wake of the warning, some farmers turned in their irrigation systems for manual operation instead of remote control and disconnected the remote control option. 

As a result, harm was prevented by the attack. According to a report from Cybersecurity Week, many users who left their systems on remote control had their systems compromised. 

The National Cyber Organization alerted the publi

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