South Staffordshire plc, a UK water-supply firm, has acknowledged it was the sufferer of a cyberattack. Across the similar time, the Clop ransomware group began threatening Thames Water that it will launch knowledge it has stolen from the utility except Thames Water paid up.
The issue? Thames Water wasn’t breached.
Apparently, Clop bought its UK water corporations confused.
South Staffordshire serves about 1.6 million clients and just lately reported that it was focused in a cyberattack and was “experiencing a disruption to out company IT community and our groups are working to resolve this as shortly as potential.” It added there was no disruption on service.
“This incident has not affected our skill to produce protected water, and we are able to affirm we’re nonetheless supplying protected water to all of our Cambridge Water and South Staffs Water clients,” the water firm mentioned.
In the meantime, Thames Water, the UK’s largest water provider to greater than 15 million folks, was compelled to disclaim it was breached by Clop ransomware attackers, who threatened they now had the flexibility to tamper with the water provide, in accordance with studies.
“As suppliers of vital nationwide infrastructure, we take the safety of our networks and techniques very significantly and are centered on defending them, in order that we are able to proceed to offer resilient companies to our clients and the setting,” the bigger water firm instructed the UK Mirror.
Whereas Clop appears to have its data all incorrect, each water utilities mounted succesful responses to the ransomware group’s assault on vital infrastructure, in accordance with Edward Liebig, world director of cyber ecosystem at Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence.
“I’m impressed by
South Staffordshire Water’s skill to defend towards the cyberattack within the
IT techniques and buffer the OT techniques from impression,” Liebig mentioned. “And had Thames Water not accomplished
an investigation of the ‘proof of compromise,’ they could very nicely have determined
to barter additional. In each situations, every group did their due
diligence.”
