{"id":263087,"date":"2026-06-03T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/cisa-fbi-warn-that-hackers-are-targeting-systems-used-to-monitor-industrial-fluids\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:50:10","slug":"cisa-fbi-warn-that-hackers-are-targeting-systems-used-to-monitor-industrial-fluids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/cisa-fbi-warn-that-hackers-are-targeting-systems-used-to-monitor-industrial-fluids\/","title":{"rendered":"CISA, FBI warn that hackers are targeting systems used to monitor industrial fluids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/cisa-fbi-hackers-targeting-systems-monitor-industrial-fluits\/821873\/\">CISA, FBI warn that hackers are targeting systems used to monitor industrial fluids<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/cisa-fbi-hackers-targeting-systems-monitor-industrial-fluits\/821873\/\">https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/cisa-fbi-hackers-targeting-systems-monitor-industrial-fluits\/821873\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 11:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cybersecuritydive.com\">www.cybersecuritydive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI and other federal authorities warned Tuesday that <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>hackers have targeted automatic tank gauge systems<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span> in threat activity across multiple industry sectors.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Tank gauge, or ATG, systems are used to measure temperature, check fuel or other liquid levels and detect leaks, according to guidance released by the agencies. Hackers have targeted internet-exposed devices and used command execution to disable alerts or otherwise obscure the monitoring of these devices.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Authorities referenced multiple access vectors used to exploit flaws in tank gauge systems:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Authentication bypass and hardcoded credentials allows hackers to gain access to device management interfaces.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Operating system command execution and structured query language injection lets hackers execute arbitrary code and manipulate underlying databases.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>Privilege escalation allows hackers to gain full administrator privileges over the operating system and the device application.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Federal authorities are urging operators to secure these systems, by disconnecting them from the internet, changing default passwords and applying security patches.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"standard-heading\"><span><span><span><span><span><span>Iran connection possible<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Federal authorities have not attributed the attacks to any specific group, but CNN previously reported an investigation into the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>hack of ATG systems that serve gas stations<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span> in multiple U.S. states. The threat activity is suspected to be connected to Iran-linked hackers, but federal officials are not publicly making that link.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>OT security experts cautioned there are limits to how a hacker might manipulate these devices.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cA malicious actor could take control of an ATG and disrupt its functions, including leak detection, but they cannot cause a leak with an ATG,\u201d said Markus Mueller, field CISO at Nozomi Networks. \u201cSimilarly, a malicious actor could disrupt the ability to fill or use a tank to fill a vehicle.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Besides use&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/cisa-fbi-hackers-targeting-systems-monitor-industrial-fluits\/821873\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CISA, FBI warn that hackers are targeting systems used to monitor industrial fluids https:\/\/www.cybersecuritydive.com\/news\/cisa-fbi-hackers-targeting-systems-monitor-industrial-fluits\/821873\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/5umiUlU7ZcCJRybajG2dQS0mJsqoEvzOScFZr8bozOc\/g:ce\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9HZXR0eUltYWdlcy0xMzg4OTc1MDcxLmpwZw==.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[96,57],"class_list":["post-263087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-hackerexploit","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263089,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263087\/revisions\/263089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}