The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert to the Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector due to a significant rise in cyber threat activity targeting internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Released on July 30, 2026, the advisory urges critical infrastructure owners, operators, and system integrators to immediately identify and […]

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OctLurk and SilkLurk are highly customized, memory‑resident backdoors used in an ongoing cyberespionage campaign against government and critical‑sector networks across Central Asia and Syria, operated by a Chinese‑speaking threat actor but not yet linked to a known APT. Active since January 2025, the operation leverages victim‑specific loaders, multi‑plugin frameworks, and shared infrastructure, along with Linux‑focused […]

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