The US cybersecurity agency (CISA), the FBI and the departments of Health (HHS), Agriculture (USDA) and Transportation (DOT) issued on Thursday, November 5 a joint warning about active cyberattacks against industrial refrigeration and cold-chain monitoring systems worldwide, according to RedesZone.
According to that outlet, the warning says attackers exploit unpatched or internet-exposed electronic temperature controllers through authentication bypass flaws, code injection and weak configurations such as default passwords. RedesZone quotes Chris Butera, CISA's deputy executive director for cybersecurity: "Every organization that relies on refrigeration and monitoring systems should assume it could be a target."
The recommendations listed by the outlet include taking controllers off the internet, accessing them only via VPN with multi-factor authentication, changing default passwords, separating operational networks from IT networks and applying updates. According to RedesZone, neither CISA nor French authorities have publicly identified the group responsible for the attacks in Europe.
Developing story: the CISA page with the warning could not be opened, so its exact date, its text and the quote attributed to Butera remain to be confirmed in the official source.
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