#supply-chain-vulnerability

#supply-chain-vulnerability

Historical examples of this kind of attack include the Stuxnet malware that targeted Iranian nuclear enrichment plants. The malware destroyed centrifuges in 2009 by causing them to spin at dangerous speeds while feeding false "normal" data to operators. Another example is the Industroyer attack by Russia against Ukraine's energy sector in 2016. Industroyer malware targeted Ukraine's power grid, using the grid's own industrial communication protocols to directly open circuit breakers and cut power to Kyiv.

This vulnerability compromised a core library used in the AWS Console itself - the central nervous system of the cloud,

Lagarde argued that Europe was vulnerable because of a dependency on third countries for our security and the supply of critical raw materials. She cited China's control of the supply of rare earth metals that are crucial in electric motors and wind turbines, as well as the choke point of power chips made by Nexperia in China that threatened to shut down production across the global car industry.

"It's scandalous that we don't have a rare earth strategic reserve," Siegel told CNBC's Squawk Box Monday, calling it a major security failure. "We let China monopolize 90% of refining rare earth materials. Where were we, realizing the importance of these?" Siegel urged the U.S. to build a rare earth stockpile similar to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which was created in 1975 after the Arab oil embargo left the country exposed to geopolitical blackmail.