Thousand of Internet-Exposed Contollers Could Put Data center Cooling and Power at Risk
Brief
Thousands of internet-exposed building controllers may be putting the physical backbone of U. S. data centers at risk.
They manage cooling, electrical distribution, and environmental conditions. If an intruder reaches them, the result could be service outages, equipment damage, or a costly emergency response.
It is a broad exposure problem created when industrial and building-management devices are reachable from the public internet.
Attackers can find these systems online and use disclosed software details, weak settings, or known flaws to gain a foothold.
TrendAI researchers identified 6,300 industrial-control and building-automation devices within one kilometer of 1,063 U. S. data centers.
TrendAI said in a report shared with Cyber Security News (CSN) that the findings came from passive Shodan data rather than direct probing.