Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called for a briefing from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on water system protection against hackers.
Old photos of past solar eclipses surfaced in social media posts that falsely claimed they showed the April 8, 2024 celestial event visible across a swathe of North America. The photos in fact show various eclipses from 1992, 2012 and 2017 in the United States. Another picture was posted on a stock image site in 2023.
It is believed that a flood in Muleshoe, Texas was orchestrated by Russian cyber attackers. The hacking group identified themselves as the Cyber Army of Russia Reborn. The group posted a video online of the town's water-control systems being manipulated, showing how they reset the controls.