monoprix is french, and it seems it was limited to sweeden and belgium.

Hoax?

“Hit by second”

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50335324 - my submission, I linked here since this is the better thread.

...or ai lab bench maxxing.

I have no problem with monitoring temps over internet.

Who ever thought it was OK to control freezers over the internet should be hung.

Isn't it a reasonable assumption that an LLM was involved in helping prepare this attack? §

No joke, yes they did. The markets hit here in Sweden are all in rural communities with very low number of tech workers. They likely order their system from a supplier, that should have alerted them and helped them, but apparently did nothing.

Imagine they where internet exposed due to simplicity. It will take longer than three weeks to set this up. Not for you but imagine you are a store owner with 0 IT knowledge.

The issue is this needs to be handled centrally by the parent org also. They have IT of course but they usually do POS and desktops/servers.

The OT/SCADA systems are usually totally separate and not touched by the white collar IT systems.

1) "They" have no idea what exposed to open internet vs LAN vs VPN even mean. They have no idea what these terms mean, they just want the easy access. Same reason why open RDP to 3389 used to be so common. Vendors install these so the store owner and them have easy access to alarms and controls. So they vendor installs it for easy access, shows the store owner, store owner trusts vendor, but vendor has done the bare minimum. Because the vendor wants it easy too.

A VPN per store would be too complex for the vendor so they just expose these to the open.

Same story as with all the hacked OT/SCADA systems in the past. Like those hacks where some SCADA system is open as a website with pump controls.

Imagine they where internet exposed due to simplicity. Imagine you are a store owner with 0 IT knowledge.

The issue is this needs to be handled centrally by the parent org also. They have IT ofc but they usually do POS and desktops/servers. The OT/SCADA systems are usually totally separate and not touched by the white collar IT systems.

2) Yes, obvious it is Russia doing this. Very handy to be able to disrupt food supply and they are also checking our response and time to restore.

In the attack on French supermarkets a few weeks ago, hackers pirated controllers mostly supplied by the Danish company Danfoss.