Industrial Cyber interviews OT security executives from Dragos, OMV Petrom, Thales and an energy-sector former CISO on how upstream oil and gas operators secure dispersed, remote and often unmanned sites. The article cites the Dragos 2026 OT/ICS review: 29% of oil and gas cases showed poor IT/OT segmentation, the highest of any sector, an…
This ZDNET article is not a cyber threat report. It covers US state legislation on plug-in (balcony or backyard) solar systems, which consist of panels, an inverter and a battery that connect to a standard 120-volt outlet. Utah was the first state to legalize them, and ten states have now done so. About two dozen others are still working …
Dispel announced the Dispel Zero Trust Engine for OEMs, a remote access platform for OEMs and machine builders that service customers' industrial equipment. It is already used at multiple OEMs, including ABB under ABB Care. The vendor cites Verizon's 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, which says 61 percent of manufacturing breaches i…
Advantech signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DEKRA to help industrial equipment and Edge AI customers meet the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and international standards such as IEC 62443 from the product design stage. The partnership covers technical and feasibility assessments, documentation review, certification preparation, vuln…
The US Coast Guard and FBI boarded the Liberian-flagged supertanker VL Prosperity mid-voyage after its network may have been compromised by a foreign actor. The vessel was carrying about 2.3 million barrels of crude oil from Egypt's Sidi Kerir terminal to Galveston, Texas. The Coast Guard reports no disruption to operations, injuries or e…
Tactien Group, an independent aviation advisory firm for critical infrastructure, announced CAST (Counter-UXS Assessment & System Testing), a software platform for planning, running and scoring counter-drone evaluations in customers' own environments. Utilities, refineries, data centers and military installations often buy counter-UAS det…
Booz Allen Hamilton published a whitepaper, From Digital to Physical: The AI Threat Is Here, on controlled tests of frontier AI models in its isolated OT cybersecurity lab in Chantilly, Virginia. With limited human direction, the models achieved all eight test objectives. They moved from perimeter compromise to control-zone actions in jus…
A joint advisory (AA25-343A) from FBI, CISA, NSA and some 18 other US, European, Five Eyes and Czech agencies warns that pro-Russia hacktivist groups are conducting opportunistic, low-sophistication attacks on critical infrastructure OT. The groups named are Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), Z-Pentest, NoName057(16) and Sector16. They e…
The FBI, CISA, NSA, EPA, DOE, CNMF and Treasury warn of ongoing exploitation of internet-exposed PLCs by an Iranian-affiliated APT group, with activity observed since at least March 2026. Targets are Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley, Schneider Electric and Siemens PLCs in the Government Services and Facilities, Water and Wastewater Syste…
This ESET WeLiveSecurity blog post argues that small and midsize businesses (SMBs) want advanced protection that is simple, guided and manageable. It cites ESET data showing 75% of SMBs are concerned about global conflicts and cyber warfare, nearly half had at least one cyber incident in the past year, and 58% believe they are more vulner…
UK officials have not committed to AI-specific measures in the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill, even though AI minister Kanishka Narayan pledged to "legislate wherever necessary". Alexandra Jones of the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade told MPs that the government is "looking at" …
Silent Lynx, tracked as UAT-6275 by Cisco Talos and TAG-193 by Recorded Future Insikt Group, has been linked to a new set of attacks on government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States. The activity ran from June 2025 through August 2026 and used four infection chains to deploy custom reverse shells (FoalShell, Chvos…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group reports on TAG-193, a cluster that ran a sustained intelligence-collection campaign against government bodies from early 2025 through May 2026. Targets include diplomacy, economic development, agriculture and environmental agencies in Russia, Tajikistan, Belarus, Armenia and Uzbekistan. Lure documents and im…
ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe reviews the main cybersecurity stories of August 2026 in a monthly video roundup. OpenAI disclosed more details on how its agents hacked the AI collaboration platform Hugging Face, and the video discusses what went wrong and the lessons from the incident. Iran-linked hackers are believed to hav…
TrendAI™ (Trend Micro) published its H1 2026 APT Activity Roundup on July 29, 2026. It finds nation-state actors used AI in more stages of the intrusion lifecycle than in any prior half-year the company has tracked. China-aligned actors used generative AI to refine exploits and iteratively build malware through "vibe coding", and one AI a…
Tenable's Cybersecurity Awareness Month blog summarizes government guidance on defending critical infrastructure against nation-state and AI-assisted attacks. Per a joint US government advisory (published in April, updated in July), Iran-affiliated APT groups have attacked US water, energy and government facilities since Operation Epic Fu…
ESET documented the evolution of MATCHBOIL, a custom C downloader used by the Russia-aligned cyberespionage group UAC-0099. Samples span April 2024 to April 2026, although CERT-UA first documented the malware in August 2025. Each iteration became more sophisticated, with new obfuscation, sandbox checks and persistence methods. All victims…
Flashpoint's weekly Middle East brief for October 9-15 describes sustained kinetic escalation alongside cyber and information operations. Ansarallah (Houthis) ran a multi-day missile, drone and cruise-missile campaign against King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. It killed at least 14 people and closed the airport through at least …
The NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE and EPA issued a joint advisory (AA26-231A) warning of an active threat to Siemens S7 Series PLCs in U.S. critical infrastructure. Unattributed threat actors are conducting reconnaissance and capability development against U.S.-based installations using AI-generated exploitation scripts disguised as legitimate OT m…
Multiple ransomware groups, including Qilin and INC, are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect portals and gateways. Unit 42 has been investigating intrusions since early June across many sectors, including finance, healthcare and manufacturing. The flaw was patched on May 13 and ini…