Weekly Security Sprint EP 134. Cyber Resilience, Critical Infrastructure attacks, Alphabet soup, and offboarding concerns
In this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:Warm Open:Critical infrastructure sectors on the most concerning threats – and needed solutions. “With critical infrastructure constantly under myriad threats, sector-focused information sharing and analysis centers and organizations collect, analyze and disseminate actionable cyber and physical threat information to stakeholders and provide them with tools to mitigate risks and enhance resiliency. To mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Threat Beat asked: 1) What is the most pressing short-term security concern in your sector? 2) What is one thing the public and/or industry/government can do now to address this?” Responses include DNG-ISAC, E-ISAC, FB-ISAO, Food and Ag-ISAC, Health-ISAC, MS-ISAC, ONE-ISAC, Space ISAC, and WaterISAC. Main Topics:Canadian Centre for Cyber Security: Alert - AL25-016 Internet-accessible industrial control systems (ICS) abused by hacktivists. In recent weeks, the Cyber Centre and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have received multiple reports of incidents involving internet-accessible ICS. One incident affected a water facility, tampering with water pressure values and resulting in degraded service for its community. Another involved a Canadian oil and gas company, where an Automated Tank Gauge (ATG) was manipulated, triggering false alarms. A third one involved a grain drying silo on a Canadian farm, where temperature and humidity levels were manipulated, resulting in potentially unsafe conditions if not caught on time. Hackers are attacking Britain’s drinking water suppliers(TLP:CLEAR) Threat Analysis for the Water and Wastewater Sector, October 2025 – Executive SummaryThreat Snapshot: Cyber Threats Remain Heightened Amid Lapse In Information Sharing Authorities, Government Shutdown. As Cybersecurity Awareness Month comes to a close and Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month nears, today, the House Committee on Homeland Security released an updated “Cyber Threat Snapshot,” outlining the heightened threats posed by malign nation-states and criminals to U.S. networks and critical infrastructure since 2024. Read the previous “Cyber Threat Snapshot,” which outlined threats from 2021 through 2024, here. 2 shot dead at Tennessee plastics plant by gunman who was ex-employee. Two employees of a plastics maker were fatally shot Monday morning in Cleveland, Tennessee, by an employee in the process of termination, authorities said. The two men killed at Barku Plastics were Tobias Gleinig and Ivan Aldergot, police said. Both were supervisors at the plant and citizens of Germany, Cleveland Police Capt. Evie West said at a news conference Monday night. Barku is a subsidiary of Barku Kunststofftechnik, a plastics producer established in Germany in 1977, which confirmed the "violent deaths" of Gleinig and Aldergot in a statement.Quick Hits:• Hurricane Melissa makes historic landfall in Jamaica as Category 5 storm• 'Total devastation': Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction, flooding in Jamaica• ‘Tremendous unprecedented devastation’ in Jamaica from Hurricane Melissa, UN coordinator says• Hurricane Melissa death toll nears 50 as Jamaica relief efforts intensify and storm heads north• Chicago firm that resolves ransomware attacks had rogue workers carrying out their own hacks, FBI says
