How hackers taking control of hundreds of refrigerators in supermarkets across France may have ‘proved’ Europe’s fears of China deactivating hundreds of its buses right on the roads ‘true’

A cyberattack that hijacked commercial refrigeration units across hundreds of French supermarkets has offered a real-world demonstration of the dangers lurking in connected infrastructure. For European officials, the incident does more than spotlight digital vulnerabilities in the food supply – it provides a warning and fuel to growing anxieties across the region that internet-linked transit systems, including hundreds of public buses built by Chinese manufacturers, could be remotely immobilised right on the roads during a crisis.

The French refrigerator attack