Comment on Supermarket Freezers Across Europe Hit With Another Cyberattack
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 16 hours agoI hope they aren’t, and we’re seeing the failure of securing the network they’re on.
Companies I’ve worked for keep different stuff on different networks, and to manage those things you either have to physically be connected to that network, or go through some kind of portal (secured with it’s own credentials) then have credentials for the management systems.
I’d bet all the attacked systems are on a fairly flat network, and the control systems (servers and management devices) are poorly secured with minimal credential policies.
Being connected through a portal is still connected to the internet.
It still explains nothing about why is it remotely necessary? A freezer and fridge do not need frequent adjustment. Their ‘monitoring’ can be done by extremely simple thermal regulation systems that have existed for decades upon decades. It’s not necessary what so ever.
It is at the scale these stores are operating at
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
They were literally exposed to the internet
Anyone could and still can connect to them