"The simplest solution is to manage the fridges over a secure internet connection. Most of our customers switched to that after the attack in France," he added.

So this is only happening because of corporate negligence/complacency.

it was already stupid when it happened a few weeks ago in France ... now it's beyond ludicrous.

Secondary lesson learned:

Things like freezers do not need to be online.

Have an employee walk up to the thing and let them tell tou if it's cold or not. Problem solved.

Same exploit that was used against the French a few weeks ago?

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Are these hackers doing test runs for an operation where all freezers worldwide simultaneously turns into space heaters on a signal, perhaps given by NeTrumPutin?

Swedish chefs are going to be borked