Threat breakdowns, case studies, and security news
Practical reading for IT leaders in Uzbekistan: incident breakdowns, practical tips, and cybersecurity news.
- Fridges against supermarkets: how hackers spoiled the food in hundreds of French stores in one night — On the night of 12 October 2026, refrigeration equipment in hundreds of French supermarkets was remotely switched into defrost mode. By morning the display cases had warmed to 50 °C, the food had to be thrown away and losses ran into millions of euros. The attack went through controllers that were exposed to the internet and hadn't been updated for years.
- $6.3 billion through one laptop: lessons from the biggest hack in crypto history — On 29 October 2026 about $6.3 billion was stolen from Binance in 20 minutes — four times the previous record. The best-protected infrastructure in the crypto industry was breached not through the blockchain or the exchange engine, but through one DevOps engineer's work laptop.
- The truck left on a fake order: how hackers steal cargo without going near the warehouse — The FBI warns that criminals increasingly steal cargo not on the road but through email and load boards. Losses in the US and Canada in 2025 reached nearly $725 million, 60% more than a year earlier. We break down the scheme and share a checklist for logistics companies.
- $25 per breach: how AI agents attacked hundreds of online stores and stole 600,000 payment cards — An attacker handed the job of hacking online retailers to AI agents and barely intervened. The result: more than 600,000 stolen payment cards, skimmers on 119 websites and an average cost of about $25 per targeted company.
- Breached without a breach: how one third-party app key exposed the customers of hundreds of online stores — Between 13 and 17 September 2026 attackers collected shopper data from online stores on the BigCommerce platform. Not one of those stores was breached. A key belonging to a third-party app — one the stores themselves had trusted with access to their customers — was enough.
- The attack on Jaguar Land Rover: a breakdown of CYFIRMA's investigation — On 2 September 2025, Jaguar Land Rover shut down its global IT systems. Production and retail operations stopped, including at the Halewood plant, and staff were sent home. We break down what's known about the attack chain and why every manufacturing company should study this incident.
- The Tez Tour breach: a file upload form, a flat network and backups next to the website — On 15 September 2026 the DataSuckers group claimed to have compromised the infrastructure of tour operator Tez Tour. A message about the seizure of its servers appeared on the company's homepage. The company confirmed the breach but rates the consequences far more mildly.
- Cane doesn't wait — On 10 June 2026 the ransomware group The Gentlemen stopped two Mackay Sugar mills in Australia without touching a single industrial system — a hole in FortiOS was enough. Here's how it happened and what to do so you're not among the 14,700 FortiGates already breached.
- WannaCry: five facts about a failed ransomware — In May 2017 WannaCry hit 300,000 computers in 150 countries within 72 hours and stopped a third of NHS hospitals in the UK — yet collected less than $100,000 from its victims. Here's what went wrong for the attackers and what it means for businesses today.
- SAICO is now on Telegram: incident breakdowns and cybersecurity news — We've launched the @saico_uz channel for things that don't always need a full article: short attack breakdowns, security tool news and notes from our practice.