Fredrik Blix
ON THE RECORD · 7 verbatim quotes · every quote source-verified
“Anyone can do it, and it does not require any resources from a country or anything like that.”
Fredrik Blix · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-09
Blix warned that anyone can carry out such attacks without requiring state resources.
“we are shuffling a lot of papers”
Fredrik Blix · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-09
Blix said organizations are shuffling papers and doing risk assessments but failing to take meaningful action.
“This is why this is so cheap to do,”
Fredrik Blix · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-09
Blix warned that publicity around the incidents could encourage copycat attacks because they are cheap to carry out.
“doing a lot of risk assessments”
Fredrik Blix · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-09
Blix said organizations are doing a lot of risk assessments but failing to take meaningful action.
“These are basic cyber hygiene things... You should not be allowed to connect industrial control systems and this kind of operational technology directly online without any proper security around it,”
Fredrik Blix · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-09
Blix said companies can take straightforward cyber hygiene steps to reduce exposure, such as not connecting industrial control systems directly online.
“What worries me is that we don't really do anything,”
Fredrik Blix · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-09
Blix expressed concern that meaningful action is not being taken despite paperwork and risk assessments.
“These attacks, they don't really require any specific advanced knowledge to carry out,”
Fredrik Blix · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-09
Blix told CNBC that the supermarket refrigeration attacks exploited systems connected directly to the public internet and required little technical sophistication.