Cyber attacks affect UK meat processing industry, top security official says
- On Thursday, The United States warned of an "ongoing cyber threat" to industrial refrigeration systems, with the FBI and CISA urging organizations to assume they could be targets.
- The warning follows recent waves of attacks targeting commercial freezers across Europe and the United Kingdom, while Pentagon investigators treat mysterious malfunctions at military bases in August as a cyberattack.
- Hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in internet-accessible temperature controllers. "If successfully exploited, the actors could change the temperature and possibly cause physical impacts such as fire hazards, loss of inventory and changes to the service life of the system," agencies warned.
- Critical infrastructure sectors, including food, Agriculture, and Transportation, face risks from these attacks. Agencies urged operators to remove remote control systems from the internet and strengthen passwords.
- While The United States has not formally attributed the hacks, security researchers and government officials suspect Iran is the likely culprit, and the threat to commercial cold storage remains ongoing.
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The incidents of recent cyberattacks highlight a broader problem: the increase in potential attack points on interconnected devices and industrial control systems The post What did the cyberattacks on cooling systems reveal – The problem in modern facilities appeared first on in.gr.
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