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Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack (www.theguardian.com)
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Chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg say fridge temperatures rose overnight, similar to hack of French stores

Supermarket chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg have said the temperatures of their refrigerators and freezers in dozens of stores rose overnight, prompting fears of a cyber-attack similar to one that caused millions of euros of food losses in France.

Sweden’s Coop chain told the daily Aftonbladet on Monday that six of ​its stores ‌had been ​affected, while ICA said it was “aware that a limited ​number of stores were affected by an incident overnight which impacted their refrigeration and freezer systems”.

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[–] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Once it could be anything, a test or some random asshole doing stuff. twice its starting to look like pattern. If it happens 3 times then its a pattern most definitely. Though the attacker could have targeted absolutely everything at the same time in the first place, so it could be more aggressive pointing out that critical things(parts of food suppily storage) are not secure at all. So it doesnt seem malicious.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago

    It could be a copycat or even just a bored kid seeing what they can do. If the first attack was successful but none of the rest of the vulnerable systems were patched, further attacks are inevitable. The pattern is just that known exploits will be exploited given enough time and bad actors.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    some random asshole doing stuff

    I don't have the reference anymore, but there was an article explaining that all those freezers were on the internet and it was the easiest thing to crack ever, like one simple command-line to execute to wreck everything.

    The fact that supermarkets all over the world didn't do anything proves how stupid and reckless they are.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    The technical aptitude needed to pull these "attacks" off is a tad higher than "i can copy&paste". This second wave only shows that supermarket IT security is practically nonexistant, probably because it's been severely underfunded for many years now.

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