Hackers tried to literally boil blood in France

[BHAN85]

There is already a thread about supermarkets fridges hacking in Europe, but this new approach is so shocking that I think it deserves another thread.

Besides, it fits more clearly like a "war" action than supermarkets.

Hackers tried to literally boil blood in France

A cyberattack attempted to raise the temperature of refrigeration systems at blood storage facilities in France.

www.businessinsider.com

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Cyberattack hits French blood banks but no samples compromised

The incident comes after supermarkets in a number of European countries reported this week that their fridges and freezers warmed up after they were remotely taken over. #EuropeNews

www.euronews.com

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/11/04/hackers-hit-french-blood-bank/

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Lack of cybersecurity.

 

[PK781]

WHY the F would they put stuff like this to be online and so vulnerable?
It needs to be better protected and with strict safeguards........maybe keep it offgrid/off the internet

 

[SolarWarden]

Like us normies Nosferatu community also like their food warm. Equal rights!

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

WHY the F would they put stuff like this to be online and so vulnerable?
It needs to be better protected and with strict safeguards........maybe keep it offgrid/off the internet

A number of reasons why central management was put in place. My counterpart and I did the same thing with our facilities in the US.

But, we also had those devices on their own subnets behind firewalls and heavily password protected including at the device level.

Same as with our security systems.

In this case, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the password was admin123.

Even here at home, our passwords are gawdawful long. My wife hates me for that. So do the little hackers around the neighborhood.

 

[Cygnus]

Why should a refrigerator be connected to the internet?

 

[313Ghazi]

Why should a refrigerator be connected to the internet?

Cold chain verification apparently.

 

[ustaad]

Why should a refrigerator be connected to the internet?

Its not uncommon to have telemetry of temperature readings in industrial cooling systems but it should not be able to control.

 

[Viet]

WHY the F would they put stuff like this to be online and so vulnerable?
It needs to be better protected and with strict safeguards........maybe keep it offgrid/off the internet

That’s normal nowadays. Lots supermarkets or companies in Europe have foods vending machines connected to the cloud, the automates are operated by external foods providers. Very efficient. Food providers know if any automat runs out of food. Hackers can hijack the machines if they discover loopholes.

 

[mythbuster]

Moral degeneration of the societies have hit bottom of the pit .... honour and chivalry are meaningless words now.

 

[PK781]

Moral degeneration of the societies have hit bottom of the pit .... honour and chivalry are meaningless words now.

hence the big punishment from divine coming soon to put humans in its place.
Well-deserved it will be perhaps?

 

[BHAN85]

A number of reasons why central management was put in place. My counterpart and I did the same thing with our facilities in the US.

But, we also had those devices on their own subnets behind firewalls and heavily password protected including at the device level.

Same as with our security systems.

In this case, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the password was admin123.

Even here at home, our passwords are gawdawful long. My wife hates me for that. So do the little hackers around the neighborhood.

keep in mind it's a embedded device, not a desktop computer where you can install or update any operating system.

the problem is... it was old fridges without firmware updates, and it has known bugs (it doesnt matter how long is the password)

the only solution is buy a new fridge or put it behind a vpn, but connection to internet are often done through embedded iot 4g modems without such capabilities.

 

[BHAN85]

Moral degeneration of the societies have hit bottom of the pit .... honour and chivalry are meaningless words now.

we are knowing more details.

french intel services blamed iran because there is Persian words in the software used for hack.

it's plain ridiculous, something that can be hidden with few "sed" commands to replace strings for any other.

so all points to Israel.

and non chosen people blood worth less than toilet water for them.

nothing new under the sun.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

we are knowing more details.

french intel services blamed iran because there is Persian words in the software used for hack.

it's plain ridiculous, something that can be hidden with few "sed" commands to replace strings for any other.

so all points to Israel.

and non chosen people blood worth less than toilet water for them.

nothing new under the sun.

I consider the comments saying this points to Israel as being speculation.

I'm not defending Israel. I am saying there are any number of hacker groups that could have done this.

 

[BHAN85]

I consider the comments saying this points to Israel as being speculation.

I'm not defending Israel. I am saying there are any number of hacker groups that could have done this.

Of course I'm speculating

French DGSE are especulating too, because they have not presented evidence, they say the evidence is Iranian ip addresses, and words in Persian in the code. Send a email to DGSE and tell them they are speculating too, they waste much money than me in their worse speculations than mine.

Why we must endure that bullshit because it comes from an authority?

Any script kiddie could use a proxy in Iran to have Iranian IP addresses, and Iran is full of people who get cryptocurrencies of Israel for do sabotages, like we see in January of this year.

And any kid could translate words to Persian with Google Translate, it proves nothing, actually it proves non-Iranian involvement because it's the most easy to avoid it, replace words of code for any other words, it's a instant job of few lines of sed commands in a shell, the software doesnt need "persian words" to work.

This doesnt give any profit to Iran, and it's already a gain for Israel, because it caused diplomatic tensions among France and Iran.

So yes, it points to Israel, and it's a most based conclusion than overrated DGSE conclusion based in their "evidences" disclosed publicly.

https://en.irna.ir/news/86318401/Araghchi-reacts-to-the-French-government-s-ridiculous-claim