As US cities embrace tech, cyberattacks pose real-world risks
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The word “cyberattack” usually brings to mind hackers breaking into a company or government agency, wreaking havoc and stealing valuable data.
But for an employee at a Florida water treatment facility, an even scarier event took place in February.
On his shift at the plant, which treats water for about 15 000 people in Oldsmar, a town near Tampa, he noticed that the levels of a chemical additive in the water were increasing.
Hackers had remotely gained access to the plant’s computer system and were adding more sodium hydroxide to the water supply. Typically used in small amounts to control acidity, at higher levels it can become dangerous to drink.
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Police are investigating cryptocurrency transactions made by alleged murderer Yorgen Fenech, including their links to a notorious ‘darkweb’ marketplace.
In total, five bitcoin wallets that Fenech is believed to have used to make online transactions are being reviewed by investigators from the police CounterTerrorism Unit.
A bitcoin wallet serves the same purpose as a regular wallet, but rather than storing actual currency, it contains information used to make online transactions using cryptocurrency.
In particular, the police investigation is also looking into purchases and attempted purchases that have been traced between Fenech and traders on a now-defunct site which is known as Wall Street Market.
Hackers are actively targeting FortiOS vulnerabilities, warn FBI and CISA
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning that hacking groups are actively targeting vulnerabilities in Fortinet Inc.’s FortiOS.
While not naming which hacking groups that are targeting the operating system, the April 2 advisory describes them as advanced persistent threat groups, hacking groups that are typically sponsored by nation-states.
The APTs are said to be scanning devices on ports 4443, 8443 and 10443 for three vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-13379, a vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated attacker to download system files through SSL VPN; CVE-2020-12812, also an improper authentication vulnerability in SSL VPN in FortiOS; and CVE-2019-5591, a default configuration vulnerability that allows an attacker to intercept sens