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Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant last year by using a private APN to access its operational technology network. The heat-and-power facility supplies heat to roughly 50,000 residents, highlighting the serious consequences of insecure OT remote access.
Unit 42 analyzed the Aeternum botnet loader, which leverages Polygon blockchain smart contracts to run decentralized command-and-control operations and execute payloads. This approach gives threat actors resilient infrastructure that is difficult to disrupt using traditional takedown methods.
New research reveals a technique called GhostJacking, where attackers manipulate AI agents by feeding them security alerts and blocked events. This approach exposes identity governance gaps, allowing malicious actors to hijack autonomous decision-making processes.
Attacks on water systems continue to expand across more than a dozen states, with Iran suspected as the likely actor. The campaigns target poorly secured, Internet-exposed programmable logic controllers, underscoring urgent risks to critical infrastructure.
A threat actor compromised the upstream infrastructure of BdThemes, a WordPress plugin developer, to modify a remote JSON feed. This modification created rogue admin accounts in administrators' browsers, enabling unauthorized access.