(Financial Times-UK) Mehul Srivastava - In early April, municipal workers at a water pumping station in central Israel noticed a warning from their computer systems - a few pumps were turning off and on without being told to. A piece of Iranian-written code passed through servers in the U.S. and Europe, and finally to the commercially manufactured software controllers that operated the pumps, according to four Israeli officials and a Western intelligence official. The suspected goal? To trick the computers into increasing the amount of chlorine added to the treated water that flows to Israeli homes, the Western official said. The Iranian cyber attack would have triggered fail-safes that would have shut down the pumping station when the excess chemical was detected, but would have left tens of thousands of Israeli civilians and farms parched in the middle of a heatwave.
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