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If you fire missiles at me, I’ll cut off your water supply: The cyberattacks attributed to Iran that showed the US is vulnerable

Water service failed in at least 300,000 Atlanta households on July 27. Taps ran, but only a trickle came out. After receiving several consumer alerts, the water company found that a pumping station had stopped functioning, affecting that city and others in the state. The loss of pressure led authorities to advise boiling water before drinking it to reduce the risk of contamination, sparking some panic among the population. It was not a technical fault: everything points to it having been orchestrated from a computer almost 7,000 miles away, in Iran.

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Message displayed on devices attacked by CyberAv3ngers in Aliquippa (Pennsylvania) during the 2023 campaign.

© Rebecca Cook (REUTERS)

Flint in Michigan, one of the states whose water-supply infrastructures were attacked this summer.
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