Florida water plant compromise came hours after worker visited malicious site | Ars Technica
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Researchers find watering-hole attack targeting water utilities.
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav An employee for the city of Oldsmar, Florida, visited a malicious website targeting water utilities just hours before someone broke into the computer system for the city’s water treatment plant and tried to poison drinking water , security firm Dragos said Tuesday. Ultimately, the site likely played no role in the intrusion, but the incident remains unsettling, the security firm said. The website, which belonged to a Florida water utility contractor, had
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