They weren't even protected with a wireguard tunnel? 🤔

Maybe they should stop using hunter2 as their password.

Euros finding out why the "S" in "IoT" stands for "Security"

These are on the internet for things like cold chain auditing (consumer protection/health inspection stuff) and dynamic power grid balancing (as in, sun is shining extra hard today, so set all the grocery fridges a couple degrees lower temporarily to act as a solar battery). I.e., for good reasons that we like. Grocery fridges amount to something like 1% of all the energy used in any given country, so this isn’t nothing.

There haven’t been many details about these attacks other than the "password of the day" backdoor, and it’s reasonably likely that these were only visible on an intranet that was breached by hacking someone’s laptop or something.

The real problem is that they’re still using the firmware with the manufacturer backdoor. That’s crazy.

Stop connecting basic thermostats to the web. Holy crap they worked fine before.

I get there are SOME practical reasons to have industrial freezers hooked up to wifi.

But, you'd think they could have like, an offline mode, where they just work like normal freezers.

What's funny is everyone's like, "Why are fridges on the internet‽" Wait till y'all find out about scada.

Why the fuck can someone do a cyber attack on freezers wtf

Why would you connect the fridges to the internet! Just don’t do that! You’ve created a vulnerability that just didn’t need to exist!