What happens if China hacks US water supply? I went to a secret war game to find out

Wired: As the US government and cybersecurity industry continued to track Volt Typhoon, however, it became clear that the hackers’ target list wasn’t limited to networks that would allow the sabotage of US military assets. They included the IT systems of a water utility in Hawaii, multiple US ports, and at least one oil and gas pipeline that might have military relevance, but also hundreds of other entities including water and electric infrastructure as small-scale as the Littleton Electric Light & Water Departments in Littleton, Massachusetts, a town with just under 10,500 residents. “The only reason to target that sort of entity is to cause societal chaos in the United States,” CISA’s former executive director Brandon Wales told WIRED in early 2025. Volt Typhoon, he said, seemed to be preparing to “cause chaos in the homeland—to influence our geopolitical freedom of action, our willingness to fight.”…