The CyBUr Smart Morning News Update
Oct 19, 2026 · 18 min · 11 segments
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So hundreds of French grocers lost tens, if not hundreds of millions of euros last week from cyber attacks that manipulated their refrigerator systems overnight.
Last week, obviously, as we talked about, hackers broke into last Monday, commercial refrigeration system controllers at major French grocery stores.
They then turned the temperature up to 50 degrees Celsius, which for my friends in the US is 120 degrees, completely spoiling all the food it contained and even causing some small fires.
So according to the company's own reports, the attack impacted somewhere north of 700 grocery and retail stores all in the same night.
And worst of all, experts point out the attacks were almost certainly avoidable with standard cyber hygiene.
So that's the reason I want to bring this up is the amount of loss from a refrigerator vulnerability in a refrigerator.
How are you protecting them? If I was to go into this, the refrigerator's company or these grocery stores a week before this happened and said, look, As I review your network, you have these smart refrigerator systems connected, and there's a vulnerability that needs to be patched that hasn't.
Do you think the companies would have valued that information? Certainly looking back now, I would think they would.
What's on my network? What's patched? What's not patched? I would almost guarantee that any company listening to this, any company owner doesn't know everything on his network, and there's probably stuff that's unpatched that could allow a bad actor in.
So hundreds of French grocers lost tens, if not hundreds of millions of euros last week from cyber attacks that manipulated their refrigerator systems overnight.
Last week, obviously, as we talked about, hackers broke into last Monday, commercial refrigeration system controllers at major French grocery stores.
They then turned the temperature up to 50 degrees Celsius, which for my friends in the US is 120 degrees, completely spoiling all the food it contained and even causing some small fires.
So according to the company's own reports, the attack impacted somewhere north of 700 grocery and retail stores all in the same night.
And worst of all, experts point out the attacks were almost certainly avoidable with standard cyber hygiene.
So that's the reason I want to bring this up is the amount of loss from a refrigerator vulnerability in a refrigerator.
How are you protecting them? If I was to go into this, the refrigerator's company or these grocery stores a week before this happened and said, look, As I review your network, you have these smart refrigerator systems connected, and there's a vulnerability that needs to be patched that hasn't.
Do you think the companies would have valued that information? Certainly looking back now, I would think they would.
What's on my network? What's patched? What's not patched? I would almost guarantee that any company listening to this, any company owner doesn't know everything on his network, and there's probably stuff that's unpatched that could allow a bad actor in.
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