🧊Hackers Spoil Food at Dozens of European Supermarkets Via Fridge Settings

Your smart fridge could be the next attack vector

Hackers just turned supermarket fridges into a food-spoiling weapon. Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt confirmed overnight that a second wave of attacks hit dozens of stores in Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg and Sweden. The attackers flipped the units into defrost mode, and stores threw out whatever thawed. If you build anything that touches IoT, this is your warning. The fridges were internet-connected and ran on a Danish company's firmware, which had stopped issuing security updates. Security researchers had already flagged remote-hack and outage risk. Treat every connected device on your network as hostile until it proves otherwise. The attacks follow a earlier wave in France last month that spoiled food at hundreds of supermarkets by deliberately raising unit temperatures. The U.S. Department of Defense is now checking whether freezers on military bases were hit, and the probe is reportedly tied to Iran-backed hackers. Those same actors were blamed for attacks on U.S. water providers earlier this year.