In France, refrigerators were broken into in hundreds of stores. Can this happen at your home?
On the night between October 11 and 12, someone took control of the refrigerators in about 700 sites in France: supermarkets, butchers and food processing plants were affected. Food had to be thrown away, and in at least 15 cases fires occurred.
Paris blamed the attack on the Shahid Kou group, which French authorities link to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. France has summoned the Iranian ambassador and plans to seek EU sanctions, but Tehran has rejected the accusations. In early November, a similar attack hit three sites of the French blood service. An alert was raised on the spot, and the workers were able to save the supplies.
Are you starting to worry about your gear?
A normal refrigerator without a network connection cannot be hacked in this way. If the refrigerator or other household appliances can be controlled via an app, replace the manufacturer's password with a unique password, enable login with an additional certificate, and update both the app and the device itself. If you don't need out-of-home control, turn it off in the settings.
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