The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI found no...
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI found no evidence of a cyber attack on the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system of an Illinois water utility plant. The agencies also concluded “there was no malicious traffic from…
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Russia or any foreign entities,” a DHS spokesman said. There’s no evidence supporting claims “that any credentials were stolen, or that the vendor was involved in any malicious activity that led to a pump failure at the water plant,” he said. The agencies analyzed the incident after a security expert issued an initial report to the DHS Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group about a potential compromise of the utility’s SCADA system, DHS said. The initial reports were based on raw, unconfirmed data “and subsequently leaked to the media,” the spokesman said. He said analysis of the incident is ongoing.