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Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities

ID
11576
Status
summarized
Published
06 Aug 2026, 8:16 PM
Fetched
06 Aug 2026, 10:45 PM
Provider
The Hacker News
Category
security
Original URL
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/over-4400-rockwell-plcs-exposed-online.html
Source URL
https://feeds.feedburner.com/TheHackersNews

Excerpt

Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network. Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844 in the United States, but Forescout could not confirm any were compromised. That figure counts exposed

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