Patched | Energy Client

In April 2025, Midwest Electric Co-op (a fictional representation based on composite events) delayed applying the energy client patch due to “change freeze” before a holiday weekend. On Friday evening, threat actors scanned for unpatched clients and found 14 instances. They used the insecure deserialization flaw to crash the load forecasting module. Result: The co-op lost visibility of 3,200 smart thermostats during a sudden heatwave.

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