A cyber incident affecting a small UK electricity generator in July 2026 resulted in several days of operational unavailability and triggered a government and NCSC response. UK authorities confirmed that the event posed no threat to the wider grid and caused no customer outages. Media reporting described the affected asset as a small gas-fired peaking plant of approximately 15 MW, although the operator, location, technical architecture, and exact attack path remain undisclosed.

In light of the water-sector activity described below, we've increased monitoring for related indicators of compromise across our client environments. Please contact your LevelBlue account team with questions specific to your environment.

Remote access trojans (RATs) are legacy threats that continue to evolve alongside an expanding and ever-changing threat landscape. Following our recently published articles about novel and notable RATs, including KarstoRAT, the latest version of ClickFix, and ClickFix’s macOS variant, we analyzed QuimaRAT, a novel Java-based RAT that targets Windows, Linux, and macOS environments and is currently being sold on the dark web as a subscription-based RAT platform.