Refrigeration cyberattacks hit European supermarkets
Original title: New Wave of Refrigeration Cyberattacks Hits Supermarkets Across Europe, Forcing Stores to Pull Food
Attackers remotely altered fridges and freezers in supermarkets across Belgium, Sweden and Estonia, forcing stores to discard spoiled food.
Overnight into November 2, attackers changed settings on refrigeration controls at supermarkets in Belgium, Sweden, Estonia and other European countries. Units were switched to defrost mode or set to 50°C, ruining chilled and frozen goods. Danfoss systems were affected in multiple cases. No claims of responsibility have been made.
Unconfirmed: Whether all incidents are linked to each other or to the French attack
- Fridges set to 50°C in several stores
- Several dozen Delhaize stores affected in Belgium
- Danfoss refrigeration controls targeted
- CERT-FR alert gives operator steps
- Some systems still used default passwords
- Vendors
- Danfoss
- Products
- refrigeration controls
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Attackers remotely changed the settings on refrigeration controls at supermarkets in Belgium, Sweden, Estonia and other European countries overnight into Monday, November 2, warming fridges and freezers. No chain reported more than several dozen affected stores, and some had to throw away chilled and frozen food or take it off the shelf. Danfoss, a Danish maker of refrigeration controls,
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