What films told us crippling infrastructure cyberattacks would be like: Traffic lights flashing, planes crashing, power grids being shut down.
What crippling infrastructure cyberattacks are actually like: Setting all the supermarket fridges across Europe to defrost.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-prices-also-impacted-by-incident
Jonty Wareing
npub1cs…sar7x
2026-10-12 13:03:01 UTC
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2026-10-12 13:03:01 UTCEvent JSON
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