Hackers recently launched a chilling cyber assault on France’s national blood service, targeting the refrigeration systems that keep life-saving blood safe.
Instead of missiles or guns, they used keyboards and malicious code to try raising storage temperatures to dangerous levels that could have spoiled critical supplies.
The French Blood Service supports more than 1,900 hospitals and serves over one million patients every year.
Hundreds of supermarket refrigeration systems have also been hit in previous waves, showing how industrial control systems remain vulnerable targets.
In an interconnected world, healthcare systems must treat cybersecurity as seriously as physical security.