At about four o'clock on Monday morning, a supermarket manager outside Dijon got a phone call telling him his freezers were warming up. When he got to the store, he found what managers at hundreds of other French supermarkets were finding that same morning: the cold was gone, and somebody on the internet had taken it.
Michael Jackson · Friday 16 October 2026
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- CERT-FR alert CERTFR-2026-ALE-012: Incident de sécurité ciblant les contrôleurs à distance des installations de réfrigération (12 Oct 2026, updated 13 Oct)
- France investigates cyberattack that hacked retailers' refrigeration systems
- Supermarket Refrigeration Attack Widens to Copeland, Dixell Controllers
- Investigators hunt French supermarket fridge hackers, no claim of responsibility
- Investigators hunt hackers who heated French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food
- Hackers heat French supermarket fridges, sparking fires and spoiling food
- French supermarkets' cyber insurance unlikely to cover food losses, insurers say
- Thousands of refrigerators were hacked across France. How worried should you be?
- French cybersecurity authority warns attack may be ongoing as stores scramble to restock
- 'Unprecedented' cyberattack targets refrigeration units at hundreds of French supermarkets
- Danfoss moves to mitigate cyberattack
- Frostbitten in France: A Danfoss StoreView Internet Exposure Report
- Freeze the Controller, Defrost the Food: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Danfoss Refrigeration Controllers
- Chilling Discoveries: Unpacking Vulnerabilities in Copeland XWEB Pro Controllers
- ICS advisory ICSA-26-057-10: Copeland XWEB and XWEB Pro
- Thousands of refrigerator devices remain exposed following French cyberattack
- Cyberattaque contre les supermarchés : le parquet de Paris ouvre une enquête nationale
- Protecting operational technology and edge devices
- Hackers heat French supermarket fridges via Danfoss controllers (our first report)
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