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After fridge hacks, home appliances could be next, warns EU cyber chief
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BRUSSELS - After recent attacks on supermarket fridges, home appliances could be next, the EU’s cyber chief told AFP on Nov 10, as he urged Europe to invest more to counter growing cyber threats.
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Supermarkets in at least 12 European countries were hit by cyberattacks in October and November, with France the worst affected.
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“Security should not and cannot be an afterthought,” Juhan Lepassaar, executive director of the EU’s cybersecurity agency, ENISA, said.
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Lepassaar spoke to AFP in Brussels where he unveiled the Athens-based agency’s latest biennial report on the state of the EU’s cybersecurity.
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“All incidents can be avoided, but the question is, are we ready to invest to make it happen?
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Cybersecurity is not cheap,” he said, calling on manufacturers to make products that are secure “by design”.
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Cybersecurity is crucial, Lepassaar said, because “every single service that you are depending on as a citizen, as a human being, contains a layer whereby there is a digital element in it, a piece of code which if not protected can be hacked.”
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A worst-case scenario would mean losing services “you depend upon: the policemen arriving, the fire brigade arriving, the hospital functioning, the transport giving you a ride from point A to B.”
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“These are the things that we depend on to function well and 24-7,” he explained.
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“And if they don’t, we will have an immediate impact.”
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Hundreds of French supermarkets were hit in cyberattacks on Oct 11 and 12, which raised the temperatures in their refrigerators and freezers, forcing many to throw away entire inventories of perishable food.
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France on Nov 9 said it held Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) responsible for the cyberattacks on supermarkets.
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Lepassaar would not comment directly on France’s accusation, but said Iranian and Russian “state-aligned actors” were known to target Europe.
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He pointed to “a lot of collaboration” between them.
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“China, Iran, People’s Republic of North Korea, there are a lot of state-aligned threat actors which do target European companies and European interests,” Lepassaar said.
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He welcomed EU cyber rules that will fully enter into force in 2027, and the bloc’s plans to “double the size of ENISA and also its resources.
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It would “never” be enough, he said, “but it is a first good step”.
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