alt Hacker NewsHackers hit French national blood bank
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Not only freezers, but a lot of other appliances have become IoT-integrated to simplify inspection procedures. Instead of the health department looking at each freezer/smoke detector/gas detector/emergency floodlight individually, you can just present them with a report from your building's safety system. Older systems were mostly some industrial bus and are off-grid by default, but new ones are usually smarter, and as a result, IP-connected.
This is easily fixed with data diodes. I can see future industrial appliances and other critical IoT devices with embedded units. You use the read/write port for initial configuration then the diode for permanent monitoring, making it physical impossible to send data to the equipment.
Closer to the source than an English newspaper:
* https://lecanardenchaine.fr/police-justice/55332-les-hackers...
Are these IoT devices actually directly on the internet, in the sense of exposing a port on a public IP address (perhaps behind NAT)?
Because you'd think it would work to just have them on a VPN, and then they aren't responsive to any non-authenticated internet traffic?
The advent of AI and its ability to find vulnerabilities so quickly is getting out of hand. Yesterday it was supermarket fridges now its fridges that store blood, they should never have been connected to the internet in the first place especially in these times with AI, but all of Europe needs to invest more into their cyber security systems they are anachronistic at this point.
can someone please explain how they can heat the blood I understand they can stop the freezing but you cannot set the temperature of a refrigerator to a point where it literally heats the stuff inside since a refrigerator do not have the mean to warm objects inside it can only remove the heat.
We need to have a French Revolution for hackers that do this. One clobbering, and they will think twice.
Stop attaching everything to the internet...
They had almost 3 weeks of warning since those attacks started. No excuses if they are not secured by now.
This is out there!
It is either malicious incompetence or a red flag. No other explanation for me is satisfactory.
we are a few attacks like this from a country interpreting it as a declaration of war. I have no doubts a developed country counter-intelligence cell can find which country is responsible for such a large scale attack. I wish they target countries like China instead of spineless france.
This is not looking good especially with so much red tape in Europe don’t know how they will deal with this…
Fridges shouldn't be on the internet, doubly so when it's one storing vital medical supplies.