Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days
A small-scale British power plant was knocked offline for four days by hackers UK officials say were linked to Iran, The Telegraph reports. It is the first known case of its kind against UK energy infrastructure, and the wider grid was never at risk.
A British power plant was knocked offline for four days by hackers UK officials say were linked to Iran, The Telegraph reports - the first known case in which Iran-linked hackers have taken down a UK power facility. Officials have not named the plant, saying it was a small-scale generator and the wider grid was never at risk. The same window saw Iran-linked hackers hit water infrastructure across twelve US states. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, says it logged over two hundred attacks on critical national infrastructure in the past year, per its chief executive Richard Horne.