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   Experts warn UK's basic infrastructure at risk after hackers target drinking   
   water suppliers   
      
   Date:   
   Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:53:45 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Attacks have disrupted operations on five separate occasions, experts warn.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   New reports have revealed five cyberattacks have targeted British drinking   
   water facilities since January 2024 - a record number in any two year period.    
      
   Reports of these incidents were obtained by The Record using Freedom of   
   Information requests to the watchdog - the Drinking Water Inspectorate. The   
   regulator is only required by NIS regulations to report incidents that   
   actually result in disruption - so the number of attempted attacks is likely   
   to be much higher.    
      
   Although these didnt directly affect the supply of safe water, they were   
   successful in disrupting critical organizations - painting a disturbing   
   picture of the potential threat malicious hackers pose to our society.    
      
   Potential harm to human life   
      
   As political violence increasingly manifests through cyberattacks , critical   
   infrastructure is targeted more than ever, but hackers arent all state    
   actors.    
      
   In fact, a ransomware attack targeted Southern Water in 2024, asking for over   
   3m as a payment for leaked data in a seemingly purely financially motivated   
   attack - meaning organizations need to beware of attacks from all angles.    
      
   The Canadian Centre for Cybersecurity also recently warned hacktivists had   
   been discovered tampering with online systems that control water, energy, and   
   agricultural facilities - disruption to any of which could be deadly, and a   
   simultaneous attack could bring daily life to a halt across the country.    
      
   Make no mistake, any attack targeted at critical infrastructure is intended    
   to gain media attention, disrupt public services, potentially harm human    
   life, and should be taken seriously, says Jason Shea, principal advisor of   
   grid security at Optiv.    
      
   We often pay more attention to advanced nation-state actors and surrounding   
   geological tensions, and we lose sight of the less sophisticated and   
   opportunistic attacks. These should not be taken lightly.    
      
   Geopolitical instability threatens to expose vulnerabilities across the   
   landscape, and small scale attacks like these are testing the waters   
   (literally) to see just how well prepared the infrastructure is, and how much   
   it could be disrupted in a large-scale attack.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/experts-warn-uks-basic-infrastructure-a   
   t-risk-after-hackers-target-drinking-water-suppliers   
      
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