Can't tell if it will be some asshole hacker group, Russia, the us, or what. But for the love of God please stop connecting everything to the Internet and also ai...
Hackers remotely override settings on thousands of freezers, fridges and chiller cabinets, pushing them from as low as -27C to well over 50C. Intermarché, Coopérative U, Carrefour, Leclerc and Monoprix chains among those affected.
Why isn't the brand of cooler or cooler-controller being named?
Was it a password break or an open admin console or SNMP or what?
I wonder if the companies affected this time missed the news about the French attack a few weeks back?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50335602
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50335252
Two things:
1) I hope they learn some hard lessons about security and what should be exposed to the internet vs LAN.
2) These are some evil ass people doing this shit.
Can't tell if it will be some asshole hacker group, Russia, the us, or what. But for the love of God please stop connecting everything to the Internet and also ai...
Isn't it a reasonable assumption that an LLM was involved in helping prepare this attack? §
I have no problem with monitoring temps over internet.
Who ever thought it was OK to control freezers over the internet should be hung.
...or ai lab bench maxxing.
that's insane, they just got hit recently right?
“Hit by second”
Hackers remotely override settings on thousands of freezers, fridges and chiller cabinets, pushing them from as low as -27C to well over 50C. Intermarché, Coopérative U, Carrefour, Leclerc and Monoprix chains among those affected.
monoprix is french, and it seems it was limited to sweeden and belgium.
Hoax?
They are all french brands. I think he is referring to the previous hack that happen last month. Looks like a AI-generated comment tbf.
That sounds like the October event which was focused in France. The current one is all over Europe, from Ireland to Finland.
All of GP's names are French