In light of the cyberattacks affecting the cold chain systems of numerous operators in several European countries—including Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, Latvia, Finland, and Sweden—the Italian National Cybersecurity Agency has also called on operators in large-scale retail trade, food logistics, industrial refrigeration, and maintenance companies to adopt the security measures already recommended following the cyber incidents at a number of supermarket chains in France.
The alert was raised after serious anomalies were reported in some countries, including refrigerator and refrigeration system temperatures rising to as high as 50 degrees Celsius. The suspicion is that hackers are aiming to damage stored food, thus disrupting the food storage chain for sale through large-scale retail outlets.
Acn has currently received an incident notification from a Tuscan company operating in the mass catering sector; an attack targeting a frozen food manufacturing company in Emilia has also been detected. Reports have also been received in Sicily.
The Agency announced that it has intensified monitoring, given the sector's widespread distribution, to identify any further potential attacks.
The government is also taking action: a meeting has been convened at Palazzo Chigi, coordinated by Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers Alfredo Mantovano, to review the wave of hacker attacks affecting commercial refrigeration systems in Europe. The Director of the National Cybersecurity Agency and the Directors of the intelligence agencies will also be attending.
(Unioneonline)
