{"id":961,"date":"2026-04-08T08:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=961"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:17:00","slug":"iranian-threat-actors-disrupt-us-critical-infrastructure-via-exposed-plcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/iranian-threat-actors-disrupt-us-critical-infrastructure-via-exposed-plcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Threat Actors Disrupt US Critical Infrastructure via Exposed PLCs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran-affiliated threat actors are disrupting US critical infrastructure through attacks on Internet-exposed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/ics-ot-security\/ot-attacks-living-off-the-plant\">operational technology (OT) devices<\/a>\u00a0across numerous sectors, the US government is warning.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The revelation came Tuesday, just before the US and Iran reached a tentative two-week ceasefire agreement in the ongoing war.&nbsp;The campaign by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/threat-intelligence\/iran-mois-criminals-cyberattacks\">Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT) actors<\/a>, which began last month, soon after the US and Israel jointly attacked Iran, targets&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/whatis\/definition\/programmed-logic-controller-PLC\">programmable logic controllers (PLCs)<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 particularly Rockwell Automation\/Allen-Bradley devices \u2014 used in energy,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/ics-ot-security\/epa-water-sector-cyber-efforts\">water and wastewater<\/a>, and government facilities, according to&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cisa.gov\/news-events\/cybersecurity-advisories\/aa26-097a\">a joint advisory<\/a>&nbsp;from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/iranian-threat-actors-disrupt-us-critical-infrastructure-via-exposed-plcs\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/ics-ot-security\/iranian-threat-actors-us-critical-infrastructure-exposed-plcs\">Iran Disrupts US Critical Infrastructure via Exposed PLCs<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Iranian Threat Actors Disrupt US Critical Infrastructure via Exposed PLCs<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran-affiliated threat actors are disrupting US critical infrastructure through attacks on Internet-exposed\u00a0operational technology (OT) devices\u00a0across numerous sectors, the US government is warning.\u00a0 The revelation came Tuesday, just before the US and Iran reached a tentative two-week ceasefire agreement in the ongoing war.&nbsp;The campaign by&nbsp;Iranian advanced persistent threat (APT) actors, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,17],"tags":[72,15],"class_list":["post-961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical-infrastructure","category-vulnerability","tag-72","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}