Posts Tagged ‘OT security’
Fridge Cyberattack Second Wave Reaches Germany
The fridge cyberattack second wave reached Germany overnight on November 2. More than 100 stores across Europe saw their fridges and freezers heat up, some units to 50 °C. The BSI says it knows of incidents at individual German supermarkets, and an Edeka store in Reisbach, Bavaria, has confirmed that its cooling was switched to…
Read MoreTop 5 Cybersecurity News
This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for October 16, 2026 has one thing in common: each story turns on a check that looked like proof of safety. A VPN appliance was fully patched and the vendor’s integrity tool found nothing, yet an attacker held root. French supermarkets ran refrigeration controllers that sit outside most IT…
Read MoreFrench Supermarket Fridge Cyberattack Hits Danfoss
Attackers took control of refrigeration controllers at hundreds of French supermarkets overnight on October 11 to 12 and forced them to heat up, and this French supermarket fridge cyberattack left several chains throwing away stock. Les Mousquetaires, which owns Intermarché, said its fridges and freezers were put into defrost and heated to as much as…
Read MoreTop 5 Cybersecurity News Stories August 28, 2026
This week’s Cybersecurity News Stories August 28, 2026 arrives with a pattern that cuts across every story: the infrastructure that organisations designate as trusted — the identity service that decides who gets access, the security tool that watches for threats, the developer pipeline that builds and deploys code, the video conferencing platform that carries internal…
Read MoreTop 5 Cybersecurity News Stories August 14, 2026
This week’s Cybersecurity News Stories August 14, 2026 arrives during a week when defenders discovered something uncomfortable: the tools and infrastructure they depend on to manage, monitor, and protect their environments were themselves the target. A nation-state rootkit disabled Windows security callbacks at the kernel level. A heating plant lost control of its steam turbine…
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