This Week in Cybersecurity: 30+ Minnesota Water Utilities Hit, Russia's Zimbra Spy Campaign, and a 27-Minute AI Redis Exploit

Over the weekend of July 26-27, a coordinated cyber attack disrupted operational technology at more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota, knocking one treatment plant offline entirely and forcing several others onto manual controls. A single class of attack reached into water infrastructure across dozens of communities at once, and state officials still can’t say how many systems were actually compromised versus merely targeted. On the espionage side, a joint advisory from CISA and more than a dozen allied nations revealed that a Russian state-backed group had spent roughly a year