France: an unprecedented cyberattack sabotages refrigerators in hundreds of supermarkets

South Africa

2 SOURCES

Pick-up of English-language wire reports · 4 of 6 countries

Pretoria focuses on an attack on the food cold chain: South African press, via wire copy, presents it as infrastructure sabotage causing fires and food losses, with ANSSI called in and Europe alerted.

Australia

3 SOURCES

Pick-up of English-language wire reports · 4 of 6 countries

Canberra takes from the attack on French refrigerators mainly its security dimension: an everyday piece of infrastructure hacked remotely, with fires, investigators mobilized and other European countries affected.

Canada

incl. 1 state outlet

3 SOURCES

Pick-up of English-language wire reports · 4 of 6 countries

Ottawa gauges the attack as a blow to the food supply chain: Canadian press, mostly relaying Reuters, stresses the fires, the discarded food and the investigation entrusted to the ANSSI.

France

4 SOURCES

National technical and economic reading · 1 of 6 countries

Paris dissects a flaw that is first of all technical: old Danfoss controllers, with no security updates, which ANSSI considers it "urgent" to disconnect from the Internet.

Pakistan

2 SOURCES

Pick-up of English-language wire reports · 4 of 6 countries

Islamabad takes from this attack the technical flaw: obsolete cooling units running outdated firmware, with Danfoss urging its customers to update their systems.

Singapore

2 SOURCES

European food security framing · 1 of 6 countries

Singapore takes from the attack on French refrigerators a food security signal, in which hackers target the cooling systems of a supply chain.