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meThe first hit came in April and it was a complete surprise. The corona crisis was less than four weeks old when employees at a small water plant in Israel had to watch parts of the system automatically shut down on their computers. Like out of nowhere. What initially looked like a technical error turned out to be a life-threatening cyber attack hours later. The attack apparently came from Iran. Israel’s digital trackers found bits of software infiltrated into the water plant’s computer systems. The attackers had sent their program halfway around the world via the Internet, smuggled it through various servers in America and Europe on their way to conceal its origin.
Upon arrival at the destination in Israel, the code was supposed to manipulate the control of computer-operated treatment systems in such a way that more chlorine was added to the recycled water than could be good for the user. Poison in Drinking Water: Israel accused Iran of a terrorist attack. The country denied all the accusations. Then in May, computers at the country’s largest port in Iran failed. Now Tehran has accused the Israelis. They said nothing, but four weeks later they discovered two more attacks on their systems, on the controls of agricultural water treatment plants.
