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French supermarket refrigerators reportedly switched to defrost remotely

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A cyberattack reportedly triggered automatic defrosting on supermarket refrigeration systems in France. Temperatures rose and some fresh and frozen display units were put out of service.

French supermarket refrigerators reportedly switched to defrost remotely

A cooling system’s maintenance function reportedly stops it

The report says multiple chains were affected and that the systems may have used older Danfoss controller software. The odd part is that a built-in maintenance function—defrosting—was reportedly used to stop equipment whose job is to keep food cold. How the controllers were compromised has not been established.

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