U.S. Agencies Warn Refrigeration Controller Attacks Could Cause Fires and Inventory Losses
Summary: A joint advisory from CISA, the FBI, HHS, USDA, and DOT warns that threat actors are targeting internet-accessible industrial refrigeration and cold-chain monitoring controllers to remotely alter settings and force units into continuous heating and defrost cycles. In recent weeks attackers hit hundreds of supermarkets across Europe, raising temperatures in some cases to 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), and the French Blood Establishment confirmed an incident at three blood plasma storage facilities.
What's compelling: The same remote settings change that spoils a grocer's inventory can push a blood plasma storage facility to "extremely high levels" - and Censys still counts 708 exposed Danfoss StoreView and 2,420 Copeland/Dixell XWEB instances after the recent decline.
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