Topic

Supply chain

7 articles tagged Supply chain.

Insights12 October 2026

Britain's exposed controllers: a UK exposure report after the French fridge attack

After Sunday's cyberattack on French supermarket refrigeration, we turned the same question on the UK. Over 800 internet-exposed refrigeration and building-management controllers answer directly to the open internet here, across Danfoss, Carel, Copeland and other vendors, and that figure is a floor rather than a ceiling. Here is what we found, why France was hit and not Britain, and what to do this week.

Peter Bassill10 min read · 4 reads

Insights12 October 2026

Cyberattack defrosts the fridges at hundreds of French supermarkets

Overnight on 11–12 October 2026, attackers reached into the refrigeration controllers of several hundred French supermarkets and switched the fridges and freezers into a defrost cycle that never ended. Intermarché, Coopérative U, Carrefour and Leclerc lost their chilled and frozen stock, the Paris prosecutor has opened an investigation, and the equipment at the centre of it is sitting on the open internet in the UK too.

Peter Bassill12 min read · 4 reads

Insights5 October 2026

The spies, the schools and the supply chain: a week in UK cyber

In the space of a few days MI5 warned a hundred British academics they may have helped Chinese intelligence, a think tank told Europe its patchwork of rules leaves it exposed to Chinese vendors, and the exam regulator quietly reported that England's schools are recovering from cyber incidents faster than ever. Three very different stories, one thread worth pulling.

Peter Bassill10 min read · 13 reads

Insights27 September 2026

The supplier you stopped using still has your data

Revolut's customers have had their details taken twice in a month, and on neither occasion was Revolut hacked. The second time, the data walked out of a brokerage Revolut had finished migrating away from over a year ago. Supply chain risk does not end when the contract does, and this is what to do about it.

Peter Bassill13 min read · 14 reads

Insights18 September 2026

Your supplier was breached. What did you do before it happened?

A London property manager has told its customers that bank details, passwords and lockbox codes may have been taken through a cloud reporting tool. The tool was the supplier's; the decision about what it could read was not. Here is how to review your supply chain, write it down, and be able to show your working when the inevitable happens.

Peter Bassill18 min read · 22 reads

Insights26 March 2026

The FCC Foreign Router Ban: Supply Chain Risk, State-Sponsored Threat Actors, and What UK Enterprise Security Teams Must Do Now

The FCC's ban on foreign-made routers has direct implications for UK and EU enterprise security posture. We examine the threat model, regulatory context, and strategic response.

UK Cyber Defence Editorial Team7 min read · 4 reads

Insights16 May 2025

DBS Data Breach 2025: Ransomware Attack Exposes 11,000 Customers

The DBS Data Breach 2025 involved a ransomware attack on a third-party vendor, exposing 11,000 customer records from DBS Bank and Bank of China Singapore.

Ismael Melgar Villalta3 min read · 12 reads