Pro-Russian TwoNet Hacktivists Target Water Utility Honeypot
bankinfosecurityToday's Hapless Hackers Are Tomorrow's Threat, Warns Forescout Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • October 13, 2025

A pro-Russian hacktivist group boasted on Telegram that it hacked a Western water treatment plant - but actually succeeded in attacking a honeypot left by security researchers at Forescout, the firm said.
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Forescout said the recently-formed TwoNet group apparently thought it scored a coup by forcing "HACKED BY BARLATI, FUCK" to pop up on a human-machine interface login page of a water utility plant.
TwoNet appears to have ceased operations on Sept. 30. Two handles most associated with the group, "BARLATI" and "DarkWarios," appear to have gone dark.
"This underscores the ephemeral nature of the ecosystem where channels and groups are short-lived, while operators typically persist by rebranding, shifting alliances, joining other groups, learning new techniques, or targeting other organizations," Forescout wrote ...
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