Meme contrasts film depictions of infrastructure cyberattacks with real-world attacks

A social post on Mastodon compares movie portrayals of crippling infrastructure cyberattacks, such as flashing traffic lights, crashing planes and shut-down power grids, with what such attacks actually look like. The item is truncated, so the real-world side of the comparison is not visible.

Timeline

1. 13 Oct, 14:00 UTCFirst appeared on Google Trends
2. 13 Oct, 14:00 UTCPicked up on News
3. 15 Oct, 06:27 UTCPicked up on Reddit

Top sources

• What films told us crippling infrastructure cyberattacks would be like: • Traffic lights flashing • Planes crashing • PoJonty Wareing
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• Traffic lights, common senser/dubai
• Cyberattack on Japanese cloud firm hits railways, police and food suppliers, 495 organizations exposedCybernews
• JR Central's Online Shopping Sites May Have Exposed Personal Data of About 15,000 Users in IDC Frontier CyberattackBigGo Finance
• Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attackBBC