Cyber attacks affect UK meat processing industry, top security official says
Hackers remotely forced refrigeration units into heating and defrost cycles, and retailers in several countries reported losses of millions of euros, officials said.
- 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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After fridge hacks, home appliances could be next, warns EU cyber chief
Supermarkets in at least 12 European countries were hit by cyberattacks in October and November, with France the worst affected. "Security should not and cannot be an afterthought," Juhan Lepassaar, executive director of the EU's cybersecurity agency ENISA, said. "Today it was fridges, tomorrow it could be routers, the day after tomorrow it could be home appliances and so forth." Lepassaar spoke to AFP in Brussels where he unveiled the Athens-ba…
In recent weeks, supermarket refrigerators in several European countries have been hit by cyberattacks. The next target may well be household appliances, said Tuesday to the AFP the head of the European Cybersecurity Agency (Enisa), Juhan Lepassaar. - Cyberattack: appliances could be the next target, according to a European official (New Technologies).
The head of the European Cybersecurity Agency warns that attacks against European countries have to happen again, targeting both essential services and homes.
After the cyber attack that hit supermarket refrigerators, appliances equipping homes could be the next target.
Following the cyber attack on supermarket refrigerators in several countries, home appliances could be the next target, warned Tuesday, Juhan Lepassaar, head of the European Cyber Security Agency (ENISA), in an AFP interview.
After the cyber attack that hit supermarket refrigerators in several countries, home appliances equipping housing could be the next target, warned Tuesday Juhan Lepassaar, head of the European Cybersecurity Agency (Enisa), in an interview with the AFP. ...
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