JUST IN: Supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden were switched into defrost overnight into 2nd November, the same method used on hundreds of French stores in October, per a Belgian refrigeration firm.
France's cyber emergency team warned on 16th October that the campaign was probably still running, and that a factory reset alone would leave old controllers open to a repeat, per its alert.
About 40 Delhaize stores, 15 Carrefour branches and about 5 Spar shops in Belgium saw fridge temperatures spike, per VRT and Colruyt Group. The same firm said it began around midnight local time, 10 AM AEDT, per HLN.
ICA said a small number of its stores were hit, all connected outside its central network, per BBC. One freezer on Öland read 55°C, per SVT. Coop reported 6 stores in Gävleborg.
The Pentagon is treating an August run of commissary freezer failures at 6 or more bases as a suspected hack, per 4 officials cited by Reuters. At Fort Huachuca in Arizona, every freezer went into defrost overnight, per the commissary.
Nobody has claimed the attacks, and no government has named a culprit.
The fix is cheap.. take the controllers off the open internet, patch the firmware and change the passwords.