SEV3 — ElevatedCLOSEDCyber✓ Corroborated · 4 sources1d ago

Critical ICS/SCADA Vulnerabilities Flagged in Des Moines — Contact-Center and Knowledge-Worker Operations Footprint at Risk

Two severity-10 advisories have been flagged for Des Moines targeting OpenPLC v3 and Digi International PortServer/One SP IA — industrial control and serial-device-server products whose compromise can disrupt building systems, network access, and physical infrastructure underpinning contact-center and knowledge-worker sites. Des Moines carries approximately 11,270 contact-center seats, 22,410 back-office seats, and 55,950 knowledge-worker seats, making facility-level disruption a credible operational risk. Operations leaders should confirm whether any managed sites or co-located facilities rely on these devices, engage IT/OT security teams for patch status, and review business-continuity plans for affected locations.

Impact Summary

Two severity-10 advisories have been flagged for Des Moines targeting OpenPLC v3 and Digi International PortServer/One SP IA — industrial control and serial-device-server products whose compromise can disrupt building systems, network access, and physical infrastructure underpinning contact-center and knowledge-worker sites. Des Moines carries approximately 11,270 contact-center seats, 22,410 back-office seats, and 55,950 knowledge-worker seats, making facility-level disruption a credible operational risk. Operations leaders should confirm whether any managed sites or co-located facilities rely on these devices, engage IT/OT security teams for patch status, and review business-continuity plans for affected locations.

Domain
Cyber
Region
Des Moines, US, US
Opened By
watchkeeper
Jul 10, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
Validated By
auto
Jul 10, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
Event Cluster
2 events
OVIX Score
10.0
Closed
watchkeeper-auto(resolved)
Jul 11, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC

Timeline4

Incident openedby watchkeeperJul 10, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
Declared from 2 signals. OVIX 10. News 1. BPO 1. High-confidence (auto).
Severity validatedby autoJul 10, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
Auto-validated: SEV3 per policy.
Note addedby watchkeeperJul 10, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
External corroboration: corroborated (4 sources via Exa). assurantcyber.com, windowsnews.ai, techinformed.com, ebuildersecurity.com
Incident closedby watchkeeperJul 11, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC
Auto-closed: no new material events within 36h for this incident.

Evidence / Why this?

Traced to source — read-onlyUpdated Jul 10, 12:00 AM UTC
Why declareddeclareHybrid
Incident declaration (deterministic floor + LLM relevance gate)v1
DECLARE when deterministicFloor AND (llm.declare OR acuteWeatherFloor) AND NOT aggregateTitle, and no open same-domain incident merges it. deterministicFloor = maxSeverity>=8 AND (newsScore>=1 OR bpoScore>=1 OR acuteWeatherFloor). acuteWeatherFloor = maxSeverity>=9 AND any signal is an acute severe-weather WARNING (tornado/severe-thunderstorm/flash-flood) — overrides the LLM footprint-based suppression. aggregateTitle (grab-bag "Multiple/Several/Various…") is refused (agents-019 §D). Asset-class deny (military/war-zone, WFM-37) suppresses earlier. cyberFloor disabled (agents-009 hotfix).
domain
cyber
regions
["Des Moines"]
bpo score
1
news score
1
llm declare
yes
max severity
10
signal count
2
llm rationale
Dual severity-10 ICS/SCADA vulnerabilities in a metro with a substantial and confirmed contact-center and knowledge-worker footprint warrant declaration; this is distinct from the open Denver incident and represents an acute, location-specific threat rather than a routine CVE advisory cycle.
aggregate title
no
high confidence
yes
acute weather floor
no
deterministic floor
yes
model claude-sonnet-4-6 · prompt watchkeeper-declare-2026-06
Why SEV3SEV3score 3Deterministic
Incident severity level (SEV1–SEV4) at declarationv1
Base: SEV2 if sev>=9 AND news>=2 AND bpo>=1; else SEV3 if sev>=8 AND (news>=1 OR bpo>=1); else SEV4. Acute severe-weather (agents-028): if sev>=9 floor to SEV3 (SEV2→SEV3); minor/transient watches+advisories drop SEV2/SEV3→SEV4. Single-event cap: any SEV2 caps to SEV3 absent sustained multi-day BPO-region corroboration (SEV2 promotion is human-gated via revalidation). score = numeric SEV (1=most severe … 4); SEV3/SEV4 auto-validate, SEV1/SEV2 require human validation.
domain
cyber
bpo score
1
news score
1
persistent
no
max severity
10
auto validated
yes
acute weather floor
no
Geo Provenance
Tiercentroid
Sourcegeo_density
Deterministic

Related Signals14

[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — OpenPLC v3sentinel8h ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — Hitachi Energy e-mesh EMSsentinel10h ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — OpenPLC v3sentinel14h ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — Labcenter Proteus 9sentinel19h ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — Digi International PortServer TS, Digi One SP IAsentinel23h ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — OpenPLC v3sentinel1d ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — Hydro-Québec Le Circuit Electrique charging station backendsentinel1d ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — Labcenter Proteus 9sentinel1d ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — Hydro-Québec Le Circuit Electrique charging station backendsentinel1d ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — OpenPLC v3sentinel1d ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — Hitachi Energy PROMOD Vsentinel1d ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — Hydro-Québec Le Circuit Electrique charging station backendsentinel1d ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — Digi International PortServer TS, Digi One SP IAsentinel1d ago[Des Moines] cyber 10.0 — OpenPLC v3sentinel1d ago

External Corroboration

✓ Corroborated · 4 sourcesChecked Jul 10, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
Schneider Electric EasyLogic T150 and Saitel DP RTU - ASSURANT™assurantcyber.comJun 30, 2026, 12:00 PM UTCCritical SNMP Vulnerability in Schneider Electric Easergy Relays Opens Door to Grid Disruption - Windows Newswindowsnews.aiJul 9, 2026, 04:32 PM UTCCISA adds Lantronix flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities - TechInformedtechinformed.comJul 2, 2026, 12:42 PM UTCIran, Russia and China Are Targeting Water Systems With Default Passwordsebuildersecurity.comJun 30, 2026, 09:20 AM UTC

Affected Regions

Des Moines