Investigators hunt French supermarket fridge hackers, no claim of responsibility

Typically, such groups tend to quickly seek to monetise their hacks or claim credit for them for ​political ends.The cyberattack, which manually overrode the temperatures at fridges in supermarket groups including Carrefour, Monoprix, Intermarche and Cooperative ​U, appears to have been easy to pull off, three cyber experts told Reuters.Staff at some ⁠Paris supermarkets threw boxes full of perished meat and frozen goods into giant trash containers on Tuesday.

At least 350 ​supermarkets — a small fraction of the total number in France – were caught up in the strike.The affected fridges relied ​on software by Danish firm Danfoss.On Monday, Danfoss said many of the affected units had "reached end of life and no longer receive software or security updates" or were "running outdated firmware".

It said it had "advised customers to keep supported systems updated with the latest firmware and to migrate legacy ​systems to current-generation solutions".The serious vulnerabilities present in older versions of Danfoss' firmware have been ​known for months.On August 9, cybersecurity firm Claroty detailed weaknesses — since patched — in the Danfoss AK-SM 800A controller that could have allowed intruders to ‌bypass ⁠authentication and run code on compromised devices.Although the precise….

"Get it wrong ​and you get a smelly ⁠mess of defrosted food."He said the well-known vulnerabilities meant the attackers were essentially pushing at an open door, something that meant the hack could easily be "kids messing around"."If this was a nation-state, why affect only a subset of French fridges?

There are plenty of other nations ​with fridges on ⁠the internet," he said.

"No ransom or demand suggests a lack of appreciation of the potential commercial losses that the fridge owners may experience."Plenty of fridges remain reachable via the internet.

Investigators hunt French supermarket fridge hackers, no claim of responsibility Updated 52 seconds ago Staff at some ⁠Paris supermarkets threw boxes full of perished meat and frozen goods into giant trash containers.

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