US government warns of ‘ongoing cyber threat’ amid mass hacks of industrial retail and military freezers
TechCrunch · Zack Whittaker ·
A joint U.S. government statement says the hacks are affecting the food, transportation, and healthcare industries after reports of global mass hacks.
The U.S. government is warning of an “ongoing cyber threat” facing industrial refrigeration units, after reports of cyberattacks targeting freezers and fridges in supermarkets around the world, U.S. military bases, and at least one blood bank.
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA, the FBI, and several other federal government departments warned in a joint statement on Thursday that hackers are targeting and compromising internet-connected refrigeration and cold chain monitoring systems in grocery stores and cold storage facilities. The statement said that the hacks are hitting critical infrastructure, such as the food, agriculture, transportation, and medicine-shipping industries.
“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,” the agencies warn.
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