suspected cyberattack affected refrigeration systems in 13 SuperValu stores<\/a> throughout Ireland.<\/p>\n On Monday a spokesperson for Musgrave, which owns the Irish supermarket chain, said the suspected attack was limited to a specific model of refrigeration.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson said an investigation had begun and that by Monday afternoon the incident had been resolved.<\/p>\n
Speaking on his way into Cabinet on Tuesday, Martin said cyberattacks are global and a \u201cconstant danger\u201d to the private and public sectors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are ongoing attacks almost on a weekly, daily basis from hacktivists, and in this case, it\u2019s through various older machinery pertaining to refrigeration,\u201d the Taoiseach said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very, very worrying because there are different actors involved in terms of cybersecurity undermining the private sector and attempting to undermine public utilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s a big, big concern and now, with AI-enabled hacking and AI-enabled cybersecurity attacks, it is becoming far more concerning and even more dangerous than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin said Ireland needs to develop \u201cvery strong resilience\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added that the National Cyber Security Centre, led by director Richard Browne, has built up \u201cvery strong\u201d capacity.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe work with other organisations across Europe and across the world because one has to collaborate on these issues,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut security is a big threat to the country. It\u2019s a big threat to democracies, and we need to be very, very vigilant at all times in respect of it.\u201d \u2013 PA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity issues are a big threat to the country and to democracies, the Taoiseach has said. Miche\u00e1l Martin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,3312,61,60,1843],"class_list":["post-673820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cybersecurity","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-micheal-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}