{"id":234980,"date":"2026-04-11T02:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/nearly-4000-us-industrial-devices-exposed-to-iranian-cyberattacks"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T07:14:16","slug":"nearly-4000-us-industrial-devices-exposed-to-iranian-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/nearly-4000-us-industrial-devices-exposed-to-iranian-cyberattacks","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 4,000 US industrial devices exposed to Iranian cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nearly-4000-us-industrial-devices-exposed-to-iranian-cyberattacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The attack surface targeted by Iranian-linked hackers in cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure networks includes thousands of Internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) manufactured by Rockwell Automation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/us-warns-of-iranian-hackers-targeting-critical-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">joint advisory<\/a> issued by multiple U.S. federal agencies on Tuesday, Iranian state-backed hacking groups have been targeting Rockwell Automation\/Allen-Bradley PLC devices since March 2026, causing operational disruptions and financial losses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIranian-affiliated APT targeting campaigns against U.S. organizations have recently escalated, likely in response to hostilities between Iran, and the United States and Israel,\u201d the authoring agencies warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The attack surface targeted by Iranian-linked hackers in cyberattacks against U.S. critical infrastructure networks includes thousands of Internet-exposed programmable logic controllers (PLCs) manufactured by Rockwell Automation. According to a joint advisory issued by multiple U.S. federal agencies on Tuesday, Iranian state-backed hacking groups have been targeting Rockwell Automation\/Allen-Bradley PLC devices since March 2026, causing operational [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}