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The International Joint Commission, a body that manages water rights along the US-Canada border, has confirmed its IT security was targeted, after a ransomware gang claimed it stole 80GB of data from the organization. "The International Joint Commission has experienced a cybersecurity incident, and we are working with relevant organizations to investigate and resolve the situation," a spokesperson for the org told The Register.

"Energy, critical manufacturing, water treatment and nuclear facilities are among the types of critical infrastructure industries under attack in the majority of reported incidents," said Mark Cristiano, commercial director of Global Cybersecurity Services at Rockwell Automation. OT/ICS cybersecurity incidents in the last three years have already exceeded the total number reported between 1991-2000.

MGM Resorts has shut down some of its IT systems following a "Cybersecurity incident" that the casino-and-hotel giant says is currently under investigation. While MGM didn't specify which parts of its IT environment had been hit - or provide any specific details about the snafu - the MGM Resorts website was down as of Monday afternoon, and a concierge at one of the hotels told The Register that all digital operations are being performed manually because the outage had taken down computer systems across the leisure goliath's empire.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released new cybersecurity response plans for federal civilian executive branch agencies.The playbooks standardize the response process and aim to reduce associated risks across the federal government, private and public sectors.