How the Kremlin drafted Russia’s hackers to attack the West

Muleshoe, population 5,000, sits in the Texas Panhandle, next to the New Mexico state line, and about as far away from Ukraine as anywhere can be.

A small, arid town linked to the outside world by a patchwork of county roads and a smattering of private airports for single-engine planes, it’s about an hour’s drive away from the nearest metropolises of Lubbock or Amarillo, and two hours away from Roswell, New Mexico. One could say that Muleshoe is prime territory for cowboys looking to ranch, aliens looking to abduct, and, as it happens, Russians looking to hack.

On Jan. 18, 2024, the delicate water supply in this arid little town started overflowing, spilling over its tanks, unnoticed and in defiance of the automated industrial software that told the intake supply lines when to shut off.

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