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Water utilities have become increasingly attractive targets for cybercriminals and state-sponsored threat actors as the sector adopts connected technologies to improve efficiency, automate operations and remotely manage critical infrastructure. While digital transformation offers significant operational benefits, it also creates new attack surfaces that adversaries can exploit to disrupt water treatment, distribution and other essential services.

Aug 6 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Alberto Musalem ‌said on Thursday it is critical for monetary policy to keep working to bring down inflation pressures amid ongoing risks to the central bank’s price-pressure mandate, and should not be set to ​bolster high productivity levels in hopes of lower future inflation.

A previously unseen ransomware family, named Spirals by its operators, was deployed in a double extortion attack against an IT services company in South Asia in June 2026, the Symantec Threat Hunter Team can reveal. The Rust-based payload is either a new ransomware threat or one purpose-built for this attack. The actor behind the attack…