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We've been tracking Iran's cyber activity for weeks now, but in the final hours before the ceasefire, Tehran appears to have escalated its efforts against the U.S.

A new federal advisory warns that regime-linked hackers have moved beyond simple probing, actively targeting systems tied to critical U.S.

infrastructure, and in some cases, already causing real-world disruptions.

In multiple cases, those intrusions forced American oil, gas, and water facilities to shut down automated processes and switch to manual operations, resulting in prolonged downtime and significant financial losses.

Up to this point, most of what we've seen out of Iran in cyberspace has been disruptive, sometimes technologically embarrassing, but largely contained to data theft or surface-level interference.

What's different now is where these regime hacking campaigns are operating.

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security say the hackers are targeting programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, the devices that enable industrial equipment to communicate and operate.

And importantly, they're not breaking through heavily defended systems head-on.

The hackers are opportunistically targeting internet-facing components, entry points that in many cases have been flagged as vulnerable to hackers for years.

Now, once regime-linked hackers are inside those systems, the risk changes entirely.

It's not just about shutting something down.

It's about the potential to manipulate how it runs, such as adjusting operating parameters, interfering with safety systems, and creating real-world consequences inside facilities that Americans rely on daily.

As an aside, if you haven't heard of Stuxnet or don't know what Stuxnet is, it would be worth your time to Google it, as they say.