Iran Took a UK Power Plant Offline for Four Days. Nobody Was Supposed to Find Out.
A cyberattack linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shut down a British power plant for four consecutive days in July 2026 — the first successful state-linked attack on UK energy infrastructure ever recorded. It happened simultaneously with Iranian PLC attacks on water systems across 12 US states. Security experts say it was a proof of concept. The real targets come next.
