Food Company Frozen
Sunday is the worst day for a cyberattack to hit—government channels are dark, support is thin, and a company’s operations can grind to a halt with almost no one watching. For one food processing firm in Latvia, that quiet was the beginning of a crisis that would take months, and hundreds of encrypted machines, to unwind.
Small Businesses Scammed
The order was for two tons of ice, every day, for nine days—a windfall for a small family business. But when the truck reached the delivery address, there was nothing there: no event, no tents, just bare land and a pin dropped on Google Maps by someone who’d never set foot nearby.