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Attackers walked from a wind farm to a heat plant's turbine over a private cellular network

2026-08-12Security

CERT Polska's report on a December 2025 intrusion at a Polish CHP plant describes what it calls the first real-world use of a private APN as an attack path. The controller they landed on still had its default admin password.

A SIM card can tell your modem what to do — and on some devices, that means code execution

2026-08-12Gadgets

Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Fuzzware showed that a hostile SIM can drive a standardised command called RUN AT straight into the modem. Three of eighteen phones accepted it. So did six of eight Quectel modules, and an EV charger.