S2E75 - Bare Metal Cyber Weekly Roll-Up — October 16, 2026

This week shows how trusted technology can become a direct route to physical damage and enterprise compromise. Attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems spoiled food, caused fires and drove losses into the millions, bringing operational technology risk into clear business focus. At the same time, attackers gained deep access through Ivanti gateways that were fully patched when intrusions began, proving that updates alone cannot establish whether an edge device is clean. A separate espionage operation used a compromised BeyondTrust support appliance to reach downstream systems, pursue credentials and collect sensitive documents. The wider issue also examines an industrial phishing marketp…

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