Cyberattack hits French blood banks
Three blood banks detected a temperature spike in their cold rooms after a cyberattack targeted a refrigeration equipment provider of the French Blood Establishment.
Three blood banks have detected and reversed a potentially destructive temperature spike in their cold rooms following a cyberattack that targeted a refrigeration equipment provider of the French Blood Establishment. Monitoring systems caught the anomalies in time. Although the EFS was not directly targeted, anomalies were reported resulting in changes to operating parameters of cold rooms. The products have been moved to other facilities and blood collection and distribution are unaffected. Part of a wider wave of refrigeration attacks in Europe.
Unconfirmed: Identity of the perpetrators unknown
- Three blood banks affected
- Products moved to other facilities
- Blood collection and distribution unaffected
- Authentication attempts observed targeting Danfoss AK-SM sensors
- Vendors
- Danfoss
- Products
- AK-SM refrigeration controller
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Three blood banks have detected and reversed a potentially destructive temperature spike in their cold rooms, following a cyberattack that targeted a refrigeration equipment provider of the French Blood Establishment (EFS), the only civilian blood collection and transfusion organization in France.
By Zeljka Zorz · helpnetsecurity.com
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