>Freezers at Ica and Coop shops in Sweden were turned up to as high as 55C on Monday while supermarkets belonging to Ahold Delhaize were affected in Belgium.>The incidents come weeks after hundreds of French supermarkets suffered similar attacks, with the temperature in one fridge rising to 80C.>About 40 Delhaize shops in Belgium were affected, 15 from Carrefour and five from Spar, according to local media reports.>Coop in Sweden said that unidentified hackers had been able to tamper with fridges and freezers at seven of its roughly 800 stores.>Camilla Nilsson, store manager of Ica St Olof in Österlen in Sweden, said that hackers had “managed to get into our refrigeration management systems and change the settings”. At least four of Ica’s shops were hit.>Experts have repeatedly warned of the damage cyber attacks could inflict on critical infrastructure, from power plants to food shops, due to poor IT security and outdated software.>“We can’t adjust the temperatures, we can’t change them. Hot air is blowing into the freezers. Everything is ruined,” Rickard Nilsson, head of an Ica shop in Sjöbo in southern Sweden, told newspaper Aftonbladet.>Temperatures of more than 50C had destroyed food worth hundreds of thousands of Swedish krona, he added.>Last month’s attacks in France are being investigated by the cyber crime unit of the Paris public prosecutor’s office as well as Anssi, the French government’s cyber security agency.https://www.ft.com/content/2526056c-c616-4116-94b1-ac278da21cca
>Many of the affected fridges and freezers were running software by Danfoss, the large, privately owned Danish industrial group. Researchers at cyber security company Claroty said in a report in August that they had “identified multiple vulnerabilities” in Danfoss’s systems, which the Danish group subsequently fixed.>Danfoss said last month that the cyber attacks affected fridge systems that were no longer receiving security updates and were running on outdated firmware. The Danish company said no link had been established between Monday’s attacks and its products.>Attacks on industrial hardware, known in the cyber security industry as operational technology or OT, have traditionally required highly specialised knowledge and been difficult to execute at scale.>Robert Lee, chief executive of cyber security company Dragos and a leading expert on OT attacks, said large language models had made it easier for hackers to access the expertise and tools needed to hit multiple devices and sites at the same time.>Earlier this year, suspected Iranian hackers targeted dozens of water utilities in the US, locking administrators out of their systems and forcing shutdowns.>“The reach and scale of these attacks is new,” he said, noting that OT attacks used to be one-off incidents. “We’ve never had a hundred-plus water utilities [being affected] at once. We’ve never had hundreds of supermarkets at once.”>Ahold said it was aware of “an IT incident affecting the refrigeration systems in a number of Delhaize stores” and was working to assess the situation.
>>545363634>lets connect fridge to internets>gute idea sven
the more i think about it the more im starting to realize that AI might actually cause all countries in the world to fully lock down at some point. can't have devices connect to the internet because AI might find a way to compromise it. or when AI starts building super viruses. you have to keep your borders shut. being non-interventionist and ultra nationalist will become a necessity for survival.utopia awaits.
ruzza did thisamerica did thischina did this
lol
>>545363634If your freezer can be hacked then honestly its your own fault for using smart devices for things that dont need to be smart devices.If your freezer is connected to the internet you're a fucking retard.
>>545363634wtf i hate france now
>>545363738Sadly everything is internet connected now. Wouldn't surprise me if hackers start going after all the smart thermostats and setting people's homes on fire.
>>545363634Why the fuck are freezers hackable?
>>545363634Good. They deserve it for connecting this shit to the internet in the first place.
>month old newsyawn
>>545364121>Published an hour ago
>>545364121It happened again today, learn to read before posting dumb faggot
>>545364080Why and how to freezers have a 130f setting
>>545364080Kikes in the tech sector and traitor politicians.Also Ziggers chimps do this sabotage shit constantly as soon as there is any vulnerability.
>>545364227Compressors can be made to run in reverse some even have built in radiant defrosters.
>>545363986I mean, it KINDA makes sense in stores and warehouses where there are many of them and they actually do have a strong reason to keep tabs of the temperatures of each of them.But even then, actual control over the internet was always hazardous.Now that Sweden and Belgium have been hit, where there are no chimpouts, how long until ziggers are blamed?
>>545363678>>Danfoss said last month that the cyber attacks affected fridge systems that were no longer receiving security updates and were running on outdated firmware.This is such bs. If your product becomes a liability after you refuse to update them, then people are better off buying from someone else.
>>545363634>lets put internet connection to our freezersI bet builder of those freezers will be bankrupt soon unless is that already.
>>545363634HAHAHAHA EAT SHIT EURONORMIES
>>545364709why are you so spiteful? We are suffering, our economy is really bad atm. I can barely afford anything on my gibs.
>>545364616>and they actually do have a strong reason to keep tabs of the temperatures of each of them.yeah, because there are controllers and middle management assholes who like to micromanage and saw on their excel sheet that one could save €0,00008 a week if the fridges could be centrally adjusted.
>>545364147Catalog.>>545361178
>>545363634Ancient news, local supermarket is changing all its freezers at the moment, nothingburger
>>545365003it's far better if you can monitor and administrate all your devices not running around your store. it's worth more than a few cents a year.it was risky to have them accessible from the internet, and may not worth the risk... And totally braindead to protect them with some stupid date of the day password or something.I don't even understand how the rest of europe had this happenning, france got fucked hard a few days ago. They saw this coming. At this point, they deserve it.
>>545364330>Compressors can be made to run in reverseEngineers would have to go out of their way to make this possible in a refrigeration system.
>>545365993It happened again today.
>>545363634>refrigeration management systemsThis is a joke, right?
>>54536373850 % of all IT is ”because we can” not ”because it improve the product and service”. It’s just idiocy.
>>545363634Try hack this!
>putting a heating element in a freezerAre europoors retarded or something. Just unplug it if you need to remove ice buildup
>>545364616It really doesn't make sense. They aren't all going to malfunction at the same time. It's needlessly added complexity just to shave off some pennies. They probably lost more in a night than they saved in 20 years.
Why are the freezers connected to the internet?Why are they able to be turned on or off over the internet? Why would you allow anything more than simple temperature and maintenance monitoring to be shared over the internet for fucking grocery store freezers? The things are basically going to be on 24/7, it's not like they're turned off overnight, they're always going to have frozen shit in them no matter what.
>>545363634>Delhaizethis is "Food lion"
Why is everything connected to the internet
>>545363634Reports in Finland now too.
>>545363634Sounds fake. How do freezers get that hot? They would have to have heaters in them or something
>>545364080So that Israel can extort them.
>>545363634>55Care freezers even capable of reaching such temperatures????
>>545372740Most commercial freezers have heaters for defrosting. and come with remote controls for monitoring and trouble shooting. Find the server, guess the admin username and password. Make defrost cycle run for all night long. Done.
>>545364709well, i'll just buy regular produce:)
>>545372625When "smarthomes" becoming people will get imprisoned in their homes...without any means to call help.....and they deserved it.
>>545363634i hope these lazy fucks learn from this, i fucking hate what muh convenience has done to how security is handled.
>>545364048i fucking hope so, all tech "enthusiasts" should be raped and killed.
>>545363738it's a good idea, actually. Do you trust the average minimum wage supermarket employee to monitor the temperature of these things and actually react when something is wrong?
>>545364616doesn't really make sense and you put it well yourself, the functionality if any should have been to simply send out the temperature readings and leave control to on site staff.
>>545375075it's pretty nice equipment and the limit switches are entirely software based (what got hacked)
>>545375534you mean management or the assistant manager that actually needs shit to do besides twiddling their thumbs? dude youre german dont be hitting people with false premises like that. you are not jewish.
old refrigerators didn't have this problem. maybe it was dumb to let tech jews put everything on to "The Cloud"
>>545370494What brand is that?
>>545363738THIS WTF
>>545376032You can always tell when someone's never had a job. That retard really thinks the shelf stacker is allowed to tinker with the fridge temps.
>>545376143that's a russian fridgehttps://orsk-holod.ru/
>>54536363455C — what’s that in yankee? also why the fuck are freezers connected to the internet?
>>545363634>We need to connect everything to the internet>Oh no, how come everything is vulnerable to cyber attacks now?!?!Fucking retarded. I know some faggot is going to respond saying that internet connected freezers make it easier to control the temperature of all the freezers at once or some retarded mild convenience that doesn't even come close to outweighing the cons of having whole supermarkets hacked by mossad agents.
>>545375534You could run the fridge controls on a raspberry pi not connected to the internet lol.
>>545363634These weird AI adds are getting really aggressive.
>>545376463131f
>>545364330>>545367427I learned this the hard way a couple of years ago. Beware Freezers with "NoFrost" technology. The marketing mumbo-jombo hides the fact that NoFrost isn't some high tech brilliant invention: it's literally just a heating system in the freezer that periodically turns on to thaw the ice and channel is down and out of the freezer.For one reason or another my freezer frosted up too much and the sensor began malfunctioning, telling the freezer to turn on the heater regularly. I had to turn it off and defrost the freezer thoroughly before it started working again. "NoFrost" freezers are strictly prohibited for certain vital medical and sensitive biological products.
>>545376653Yeah but then we'd miss out on having one more completely worthless rent seeking tech company that charges an exorbitant subscription fee to overcomplicate a basic and vital part of society!
>>545370494Okay but is that up to modern sustainability and energy code?You're realize you are destroying the environment with CO2 and illegal CFLs?
>>545376647no no that guy already passed through thankfully
>>545376647>I know some faggot is going to respond saying that internet connected freezers make it easier to control the temperature of all the freezers at onceIt's funny you say that, because it's almost exactly the reason for it. That and it makes you able to let the manufacturer call you when they're not working, which they almost never were.God I hated working in retail.
>>545376689wow, whoa — thx anon
>>545377037>It's funny you say that, because it's almost exactly the reason for it.Of course it is, there's no other possible excuse you could come up with for connecting a freezer to the internet. I'd like to just laugh at the retards who bought these things and lost thousands of dollars because of it, but this impacts an entire community of people who had nothing to do with the decision to hook a supermarket freezer up to the internet and likely had no idea it was ever even going on until this happened. This kind of thing has real consequences that could potentially leave entire cities full of people with no food to eat. Every government on Earth should see this and be racing to pass legislation to ban grocery stores from using internet connected freezers since it's a very real national security threat, but I'm sure they'll just do nothing instead.
>>545363634Damn that hack was like weeks ago. Its hard to believe businesses that have these didn't immediately find some work around to run these offline. Its crazy the government didn't step in. Food security is one of the biggest threats. Every legitimate leadership course starts out talking about how every army, every society, is 3 days with no food away from total mutiny at all times.
>>545363634Coop is shit anyway fuck them. ICA is okey.
>>545363634Imagine connecting your freezers to the Internet.Imagine running the software via a cloud subscriptionImagine using AI agents to maintain your freezersPeak clown world.
>>545363634Old news
why would you connect a freezer to the internet
>>545372740Commercial freezers DO have heaters in them. Every now and then they switch off and heat up for a short while just to melt any ice before going back into freezing mode. The food is never at risk from being warmed for such a short time.
ICA franchise owners are greedy jews fuck them. They also sell halal meat.
>>545363634I am in awe of our endemic stupidity.There is no excuse for being this stupid.Do. Not. Connect. Vital. Equipment. To. The. Internet.Unless absolutely inavoidably necessary.
>>545378802bump & repeat
>>545370368it's the same mindset as everywhere else - gotta justify my existence by making more workthe modern economy is absolutely littered with wasteful behavior
>>545378471Corporations only care about stock market prices, that's it. The actual products, the services provided, their role in society, it all takes a back seat to graph going up. Centralized temperature control is seen as a way to cut out some of the middle management, if you don't need someone on the ground to monitor the button then you can eliminate their job and pass on the savings to the shareholders, make graph go up. They'd much rather just patch the software and risk it happening again than pay for a flesh and blood minder.
>>545363634What idiot would put wireless communications technology in a freezer or fridge not only making them cost more but also opening them up to attacks from foreigners?This is planned, isn't it? All by design, to cripple nations. There's no actual consumer or store-owner advantage by adding these features.Traitors and idiots require punishment.
Sounds like Agenda 2030 to me
>>545363634Jeez. Who could have predicted this?And they told us all the smart technology was to fight global warming.People really deserve what's coming
>>545363634lol my tobacco store had the inverted problem the cooler went in overdrive and he had to open the door so the cold can get outside so his bottles wont explode.my grocery stores dont have this problem i went to 3 different the last weeks, cant see this problem here. i live here, the memefaggot probably lives in africa.
my family would have called with this news of everything heating up. looks like bullshit maybe its just special machines in special stores.
>>545380815>What idiot would put wireless communications technology in a freezer It s usefull, the problem is it s totally open. The people working IT are all school dropout who did a 6 month course fully paid by the state after losing their construction job / factory job. Nobody knows what he is doing. I remember a conversation with an IT guy who didn t know what adduser meant, he was thinking it was a legit french verb.
