Hackers reportedly changed temperature settings on refrigeration equipment used by the French Blood Establishment, EFS, from around −30°C to 110°C after targeting its cooling service provider, Coolworld.
Atrributing this kind of damage on systems that are plainly evident on shodan with a well known secret to state sponsored malicious actors is giving them way too much credit. This could be a 10 year old with a shell script and VPN.
When it comes out that all these networks are deeply compromised as a result of easy lateral movement from the freezer to the domain controller, then I’ll agree it’s possibly state sponsored.
Atrributing this kind of damage on systems that are plainly evident on shodan with a well known secret to state sponsored malicious actors is giving them way too much credit. This could be a 10 year old with a shell script and VPN.
When it comes out that all these networks are deeply compromised as a result of easy lateral movement from the freezer to the domain controller, then I’ll agree it’s possibly state sponsored.
Putin’s Razor: Never attribute to self-own that which could easily be blamed on Russia.
Next it’ll be fridges falling out of windows by accident.