Water Systems Targeted Because Why Not

Why bother securing essential services when municipal water infrastructure across multiple Minnesota cities can simply be left open for cyberattacks? Minnesota IT Services has had to drag state and federal agencies into a coordinated statewide incident response effort to figure out what happened. Authorities remain predictably tight-lipped about the threat group and the full extent of operational impact. Safeguarding critical infrastructure apparently requires more than hoping mysterious threat actors ignore public utilities.