Sources: the Pentagon is treating the late August freezer malfunctions across 6+ military bases as a suspected cyberattack and is working with French police
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If coordinated freezer failures across six-plus military bases are a cyber event, it’s another proof point that food and cold-chain infrastructure are now live attack surfaces. Operators running any temperature-controlled logistics should be reviewing OT segmentation and manual failover procedures, not just IT patching.
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