This Canadian retail and grocery chain closed 79 locations for over a week due to a "cyber security incident"... wtf was REALLY going on?
(media.greatawakening.win)
🧐 Research Wanted 🤔
The cyberattack lockdown is going to have far less legitimacy than the pandemic lockdown.
Thats why they went with the virus first.
Yup. Set a precedent just like all the 9/11 restrictions that were supposed to sunset and they never sunset.
They had infrastructure on Windows 7 and Internet Explorer (Active X). Presumably because they couldn't be fucked to redo their IT before Microsoft ended support and were arrogant enough not to isolate things or have appropriate backup and recovery. It's pretty status quo in Canada. We have critical infrastructure that's still on XP but at least those air usually air gapped or can only be reached after taking control of multiple up to date, secured machines.
Why are they connected to the internet?
Point of Sale machines for debit and credit transactions.