Fuel storage is an essential part of worldwide logistics, marking it as critical infrastructure and therefore a target for state-sponsored cyber attacks.
As with most things today, many fuel depots have some form of internet facing technology to help manage fuel levels remotely using automated tank gauges (ATG), and research from Bitsight has warned these systems have multiple critical vulnerabilities that could give an attacker full control over the fuel storage, allowing for the possibility of physical and environmental damage as well as economic loss.
