This incident didn’t just impact one French company, btw. It’s multiple orgs. The media is focused on the supermarket as they’re the big one who disclosed publicly.

German authorities are reminding orgs not to directly connect food cooling solutions to the Internet. https://www.allianz-fuer-cybersicherheit.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/Webs/ACS/DE/BSI-CS/BSI-CS_154.html

The manufacturer has confirmed this was caused by unpatched systems being internet-facing. The French government CERT has also issued an advisory saying the same. The patch in question removed the date-based backdoor password. https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/alerte/CERTFR-2026-ALE-012/

RE: https://fedi.computernewb.com/@vncresolver/117431367237175833

2026 cybersecurity guide for industrial systems

1) put them online
2) install VNC
3) pick no password
4) done, go watch The Chase

Men aren’t okay

🇩🇪 Tangerhütte (tangerhuette.de) a été victime d'une cyberattaque autour du 13 octobre 2026.

Le 'Rathaus numérique' de Tangerhütte, en Allemagne, a été victime d'une cyberattaque attribuée à l'utilisation de l'Intelligence Artificielle (IA). L'attaque a exploité une faille de type Zero-Day dans le logiciel municipal, forçant la fermeture du service numérique et obligeant les citoyens à recourir à des procédures analogiques pendant plusieurs semaines. Bien que les attaquants n'aient pas réussi à exfiltrer de données réelles, cet incident est considéré comme le premier cas connu d'une cyberattaque par IA contre une municipalité allemande.

👉 https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/hacker-in-sachsen-anhalt-offenbar-erster,ki-angriff-100.html

If you run a well-established Mastodon server you get armies of automated bots to deal with, they use Mastodon to launder posts into BlueSky via the bridge between networks. This stuff never stopped.

In this case they use a datacenter in Manchester, UK to do the posts.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/117434963703286230

The Yandex decrease in threat activity narrative was a nonsense peddled by the Ukrainian government. People confuse legit search engine bots with social media bots.

Russian propaganda operations don’t run from Yandex. They never have. I deal with them all the time on Mastodon. There was no dip.

It’s a reminder that wars have propaganda - and the propaganda was coming from Ukraine this time.

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Four (⭐⭐⭐⭐) stars."

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