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Posted on 11/04/2026 3:10:34 PM PST by CFW
French blood banks were on Monday affected by the recent wave of cybersecurity attacks on European refrigeration systems, the French Blood Establishment confirmed on Wednesday.
The organization said that while it wasn’t the direct target of the attack, cold storage units operated by external providers containing the EFS’ blood products were compromised across three of its sites, with hackers cranking up temperatures.
“Specifically, temperature and defrost thresholds were set to excessively high levels,” the EFS said in a statement translated from French to English by CNBC.
“These cold storage units—located at EFS preparation and distribution sites—are used to store blood products prior to their delivery to healthcare facilities, as well as samples intended for EFS biobanks.”
They also stored frozen plasma used for transfusions the manufacturing of medicinal products.
The EFS said that its surveillance systems were triggered rapidly, and depending on the situation, affected equipment was either brought under control with no impact on the products or samples, or they were taken offline. No samples or blood products were lost during the attack, with samples quickly transferred to other facilities, the EFS added.
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That was what I was missing! Frost-free means heaters. If you can fully control the freezing/refrigerating appliance, you can cook the contents - well above room temperature, too.
Will these refrigeration units not work unless they are connected to the internet? If they will continue to function correctly off network it sure seems like an easy fix.
I permanently block my sprinkler control and two printers from the Internet, along with an internal camera we only unblock from the firewall when we go on vacation.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has to be actively managed.
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