8/23/2026 at 10:03:01 AM
by giuliomagnifico
8/23/2026 at 2:29:26 PM
Coming soon:* Iran caused fall of German manufacturing
* Iranian investors caused housing shortage in Netherlands
* Iranians are pushing French to protest against pension age reforms
by throwaw12
8/23/2026 at 11:51:56 PM
Iran caused Game of Thrones season 8by Razengan
8/25/2026 at 2:21:13 AM
Indeed, we underestimated them.God forbid they cause an Independent Party.
by eth0up
8/24/2026 at 9:39:29 AM
Iran intervened in US elections to get Trump electedby throwaw12
8/23/2026 at 12:56:56 PM
That reads like a scare story for MPs so they approve more money to some dodgy outfit that will save us all from the ever growing axis of evil...again.by CrzyLngPwd
8/23/2026 at 2:27:15 PM
This is greatly downplaying the hacking that has been made public, hasn’t been made public, and is continuously ongoing. Water treatment plants just publicly got hit in Canada and USA.The simple truth right now is that China, Iran, and North Korea, are actively hacking out companies and infrastructure. It’s a sort of Cold War.
by goalieca
8/23/2026 at 2:37:08 PM
in the case of iran, it's hard to imagine it wouldn't be in retaliation for the infrastructure in iran that america has destroyed, so a cold war on one side, a hot war on the other.by pasquinelli
8/23/2026 at 7:51:14 PM
Is that supposed to be an explanation of the "morality" of just killing a random person because you got a bloody nose?by spwa4
8/23/2026 at 3:07:28 PM
It seems unwise to attack UK when US attacks you.by HappyPanacea
8/23/2026 at 3:24:29 PM
> It seems unwise to attack UK when US attacks you.UK's involvement in the 2026 Iran War:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_involvement_in_...
United Kingdom and the Gaza "war":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_Gaza_wa...
by O1111OOO
8/23/2026 at 4:15:43 PM
They shot down some drones and lent an army base? Hardly rousing support. If I’m not mistaken, Jordan also shot down some drones, are they next up?I’ll agree with gp, in any case seems unwise to give the UK cause to further involve themselves.
by arijun
8/23/2026 at 3:34:09 PM
Russian too, but yes we are in the first Great Cyber War that’s been raging since at least 2022by newsclues
8/24/2026 at 9:44:14 AM
Hackers caused power cut in western Ukraine [2016]: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35297464by valeg
8/23/2026 at 3:15:55 PM
>The simple truth right now is that China, Iran, and North Korea, are actively hacking out companies and infrastructure.What for?
by andai
8/24/2026 at 1:12:05 AM
Edit: I mean I'm sure it's rational, but what's the calculus there? Probing the waters? Demonstrating capabilities? What's the actual outcome?by andai
8/23/2026 at 2:43:01 PM
Those same MPs decided, for example, that it should be mandatory for EV chargers to be internet connected.They could do with a dose of reality, IMHO.
by michaelt
8/23/2026 at 3:23:00 PM
You know Iran itself refers its own side as the axis right?by zerozerotwo
8/23/2026 at 4:21:23 PM
Are you being diliberately obtuse? The U.S under Bush Jr. called them a member of the Axis of Evil. In response they called themselves and their allies the Axis of Resistance.by g8oz
8/23/2026 at 3:37:17 PM
They lost Syria so there's no axisby applicative
8/23/2026 at 1:15:23 PM
If I were an incompetent manager that need to oversee crumble infrastructure, I'd like to blame my problems on evil hackers from the other side of the world.This story does not look real.
by neves
8/23/2026 at 1:51:10 PM
In what way does it not look real? On the contrary a significant portion of the population seems to be totally swooned by Iranian propaganda and is not aware they are a malicious actor and have been for decades conducting much worse things on foreign soil than hacksby edgyquant
8/23/2026 at 7:45:01 PM
How would Iranian propaganda even enter the British population given the sparse cultural ties, saturation of media with domestic messaging, and the British government explicitly forcing public service content onto newsfeeds[1]? My expectation would be that Iranian propaganda makes zero inroads except with migrants from the region.1: https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/fines-bans-forced-new...
by Noumenon72
8/23/2026 at 2:21:29 PM
I don’t think anyone in the west are swooned by Iran. Heck, a lot of Iranians aren’t even swooned by the Iranian propaganda.What I think you’re doing is misinterpreting the wests disgust at Trumps war with Iran as favouring Iran when in fact what we actually feel is disdain for both parties.
by hnlmorg
8/23/2026 at 2:50:39 PM
It's more that a lot of people stopeed being swooned by US propaganda, and woke up to the fact that the US is a malicious actor and have been for decades, conducting much worse things on foreign soil than hacks.I, personally, have a lot more mistrust towards the US than I have towards Iran. Mostly because Iran has very limited power to affect me negatively.
by surgical_fire
8/23/2026 at 2:25:20 PM
You mean like stuxnet?Oh, wait…
by madaxe_again
8/23/2026 at 2:00:43 PM
Anything from the Telegraph should be treated as suspect and an alternative source should be found.by donohoe
8/23/2026 at 2:36:35 PM
The BBC reported on it many many hours ago at the same time [1] with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero confirming there was an incident.by zipy124
8/23/2026 at 2:52:53 PM
Actually if you read your own link - the BBC is just saying that the Telegraph reported this.And the same BBC article says that the Telegraph reported it as "the power plant was shut down for four days", whereas on the other hand, the UK Government DESNZ said it only "affected a small-scale generator" not even an entire power plant.
It's always difficult in these situations to read through the FUD and see what the truth is.
by alborzb
8/23/2026 at 4:10:33 PM
> the Telegraph reportedI would find it more trustworthy a report from my toilet hours after I ate alphabet soup.
by surgical_fire
8/23/2026 at 2:16:38 PM
This point cannot be overstated - famously the Torygraph for its stance should always have been treated with a degree of scepticism under former editors but such journalistic standards it ever had are now long and completely defunct. A rubbish-laden agitprop comic.by guiriduro
8/23/2026 at 3:36:26 PM
Every actual grown up treats every news source like this.The people who give us this sort of wisdom discredit themselves by proving they relate like credulous children to whatever news source they are using.
by applicative
8/23/2026 at 4:24:39 PM
“Every news source lies equally and is equally untrustworthy” does not sound like grown up analysis, Mr. Caulfieldby lux-lux-lux
8/23/2026 at 8:45:20 PM
Thats not what I said, though, is it? I can destroy /any/ news source, if your criteria are destructive.by applicative
8/23/2026 at 1:19:43 PM
Why would a power plant system be exposed to internet in the first placeby sajithdilshan
8/23/2026 at 3:28:39 PM
Because power plants need to coordinate to serve the grid, and there is currently a single Interconnected Network of computers out there. Would it be a good idea to create a secondary network for power control and similar critical functions, completely isolated from the internet and from any outside countries? Perhaps - but it doesn't even seem to be on the horizon for now.by tsimionescu
8/24/2026 at 8:17:13 AM
You mean the companies that laid power lines across the country are too dumb/lazy/cheap to also lay some network cables?by croes
8/24/2026 at 3:22:58 PM
It's much more than cables. You'd need an entire separate internet - ISPs, BGP, DNS, TLS PKI infrastructure, and probably many others. You'd also still need to very carefully keep this separate, as simply connecting an Internet and a "UK Power Plant Internet v2" cable into the same router or even laptop might invalidate all of the isolation you spent time building. Which is itself a losing battle, given that you need everyone's house to also be connected to this network.You, of course, then also need to ensure redundancy on this "UK Power Plant Internet v2", as you don't want to have a single point of failure such that a single router or cable somewhere being interrupted would create a network partition.
And again, there is simply no one even considering this. All of the work going into smart grid coordination (strictly necessary for incorporating a large amount of renewable power generation in the grid) is 100% designed to work on top of the public Internet.
by tsimionescu
8/23/2026 at 1:54:42 PM
DRM license verificationby seydor
8/23/2026 at 2:36:40 PM
Ofc. For the Stuxnet vulnerability.by ImHereToVote
8/23/2026 at 1:31:13 PM
There are plenty of reports that this happens and at least as of a couple years ago wasn't even that uncommon. Including CCC talks. People want to do remote maintenance, and apparently not everyone has a good enough internal IT to put this traffic on a VPNby wongarsu
8/23/2026 at 3:18:35 PM
I find it difficult to believe that a power plant doesn't have enough resources to employ at least one person who could implement a VPN - even if it's just some cousin of a senior manager.by ndsipa_pomu
8/23/2026 at 3:29:43 PM
A VPN is not some foolproof system that guarantees you can't be hacked. If you're connected to the internet, people can probe your systems. Heck, Stuxnet proved they can do it even if you aren't.by tsimionescu
8/23/2026 at 1:22:18 PM
To enable work from home?by Gys
8/23/2026 at 1:51:14 PM
I would hope critical infrastructure would have someone on site 24/7. The Internet could go out, roads blocked, and weather too dangerous for a helicopter and you'd still want power to flow. If people want to work remotely, they could have a human-bridged air gap where change instructions are followed by someone on-site.by goda90
8/23/2026 at 3:12:38 PM
I don't know about power plants, but for critical water infrastructure, there's usually not even a building for someone to sit in 24/7 and at least 99% of the time there would be nothing for them to do.by toast0
8/23/2026 at 5:20:35 PM
Maybe we bring back the "lighthouse keeper" type jobs for remote infrastructureby goda90
8/23/2026 at 2:10:00 PM
More likely windows updates.Serious answer: there's a big plan to network everything for metrology purposes. At the very least feeding real time frequency, voltage and phase information from every point of interest on the grid into a big dashboard.
by pjc50
8/23/2026 at 4:03:07 PM
It's likely that much of this stuff is still running on Windows XP which doesn't even receive updates. But of course it's still exposed to the internet.by dreamcompiler
8/23/2026 at 12:52:24 PM
Let me guess, SCADA system is somehow accessible from outside.by pjmlp
8/23/2026 at 12:56:41 PM
[dead]by cineticdaffodil
8/23/2026 at 1:14:49 PM
What goes around, comes around. What was the name of the SCADA hack dropped via USB drives in Iranian parking lots which brought down their centrifuges?Stuxnet.
by NordStreamYacht
8/23/2026 at 1:16:24 PM
It is either the fact most major infrastructure in the UK seems to be run on computer systems introduced by a man with no knowledge and struggles to turn on a computer. Or it is the start of a UK government attempt to reduce freedoms by stating look there are naughty terrorists out there that will do harm to the UK if we don't restrict programs and usage of systems.I imagine the former, but it will be used for the latter.
by ktallett
8/23/2026 at 1:24:47 PM
Both can be true at the same time.by logotype
8/23/2026 at 2:08:35 PM
The timing of this seems weird. The UK uses much more energy in the winter, so this isn't going to bring the grid down or anything.This just seems like a wasted attack, alerting us to the vulnerability.
by benj111
8/23/2026 at 3:08:58 PM
The media is trying to manufacturer consent for a deeply unpopular war of choice that has already been lost. That's so weird. Why would Iran do this? They've already won.Nothing will change the fact that this war has been a complete strategic defeat for the US and its allies. This is the beginning of the end of dismantling the world order created by the US for the benefit of the US after 1945. That's how this will be written about in history books.
by jmyeet
8/23/2026 at 3:29:18 PM
Did iran win? Their economy is on the brink of collapse with no relief in sight, and countries are investing in infrastructure to bypass the strait.And sure oil prices have gone up, but not doomsday scenario prices.
A bit of a pyrrhic victory if you insist on defining that as a victory.
Sometimes everyone's a loser.
by mupuff1234
8/23/2026 at 2:10:42 PM
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8/23/2026 at 1:23:47 PM
[dead]by recursivedoubts
8/23/2026 at 2:22:32 PM
[flagged]by sivakon
8/23/2026 at 2:36:46 PM
The BBC reported on it many many hours ago at the same time [1] with the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero confirming there was an incident.by zipy124
8/23/2026 at 4:15:58 PM
The BBC’s just reported that the telegraph reported it was Iranians. Not that it actually was…by LatteLazy
8/23/2026 at 4:00:06 PM
Please, not this juvenile “I disagree with the political leaning of a newspaper so I demand everyone else boycott it” student union behaviour.All sources have their biases. I could come up with several examples of the BBC and Guardian reporting very dubiously, for example (recently the BBC spliced together clips of the US President to make it seem he said something completely fictitious). Few sources are a paragon of truth.
How about we just think critically, and think -independently- about the media we consume. Ignore the authoritarian blow-hards who think their choice of media is the only valid choice for the rest of us.
by cbeach
8/23/2026 at 2:28:05 PM
Gives "Not found." now. Maybe retired?by claxo