7 States’ Water Systems Hit by Cyberattacks Likely Tied to Iran

This week, WIRED obtained a memo that tied dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water and wastewater utilities to Iran, the first official documentation of Iran’s likely responsibility for the most impactful campaign of cyberattacks to hit the US in the midst of the war that began nearly six months ago. In other news, more details have emerged about OpenAI’s “rogue” AI agent breach of Hugging Face’s platform. OpenAI disclosed that the AI agent hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as it sought to breach Hugging Face’s production database, which contained solutions for the cybersecurity tests OpenAI was evaluating the agent with. Anthropic, too, disclosed that its AI models gained unauthorized access to three organizations’ systems during its own cybersecurity testing. Experts say the incidents underscore the importance of implementing well-known security best practices…