{"id":2687177,"date":"2026-10-18T12:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cyberattack-turns-hundreds-of-grocery-coolers-into-saunas-dozens-of-us-military-stores-faced-similar-unexplained-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T16:03:42","slug":"cyberattack-turns-hundreds-of-grocery-coolers-into-saunas-dozens-of-us-military-stores-faced-similar-unexplained-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cyberattack-turns-hundreds-of-grocery-coolers-into-saunas-dozens-of-us-military-stores-faced-similar-unexplained-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyberattack Turns Hundreds of Grocery Coolers Into Saunas &#8211; Dozens of US Military Stores Faced Similar, Unexplained Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcyberattack-turns-hundreds-of-grocery-coolers-into-saunas-dozens-of-us-military-stores-faced-similar-unexplained-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2687177&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>A cyberattack that cooked the food inside hundreds of European grocery coolers seemingly resembles an unexplained U.S. military commissary meltdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Attackers remotely pushed fridge and freezer temperatures at hundreds of French supermarkets as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit overnight Sunday, Reuters <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/retail-consumer\/french-supermarket-chain-intermarche-hit-by-cyberattack-150-stories-targeted-2026-10-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The incident resembles refrigeration <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2026\/08\/28\/dod-confirms-refrigeration-disruption-at-military-commissaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outages<\/a> that may have hit about a dozen U.S. military commissaries in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">\u201cTargeting equipment essential to the preservation of fresh products and to the food supply of the French people is of extreme gravity and is unprecedented. It is unacceptable,\u201d Coop\u00e9rative U CEO Dominique Schelcher <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/schelcher\/status\/2109564928881308012?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a Monday X post, confirming that his supermarket chain\u2019s stores were among those targeted in the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The \u201clarge scale\u201d attack that spoiled food and led to fires \u201c[affected] connected refrigerators in several major food retailers across France,\u201d the Paris prosecutor\u2019s office said Monday, Reuters reported. <b><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The National Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI) of France, at the direction of Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecournu, traced the attack to a Danfoss software vulnerability, Reuters reported. The cyberattack also reached stores in Belgium, Germany, Poland, Portugal and Spain, Felix Aime, a senior cyber threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Danfoss, a Danish refrigeration company, said the compromised systems were running outdated firmware and previously urged customers to update older equipment, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\"><b><strong class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__textBold\">\u201c<\/strong><\/b>We are working with affected customers to implement appropriate mitigation measures, including firmware updates where available, stronger network protections and removing direct internet exposure where applicable,\u201d Danfoss <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coolingpost.com\/world-news\/danfoss-moves-to-mitigate-cyberattack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement to the Cooling Post. Around 500 stores were harmed by the attack based on reported incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Danfoss and ANSSI each did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Similarly, several U.S. military commissaries experienced refrigeration cooling failures in August, including Fort Irwin, Fort Huachuca, Naval Station Newport and Travis Air Force Base, Stars and Stripes\u00a0<a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/theaters\/us\/2026-08-28\/refrigeration-outages-multiple-us-commissaries-22684428.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Army and Air Force criminal investigators confirmed probes into the commissary outages, according to Stars and Stripes. The Defense Department only confirmed a \u201cpossible refrigeration disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">The Pentagon did not immediately respond to the DCNF\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">Researchers at cybersecurity firm Claroty <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/claroty.com\/team82\/research\/freeze-the-controller-defrost-the-food-uncovering-vulnerabilities-in-danfoss-refrigeration-controllers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> in August that more than 2,700 Danfoss systems that run supermarkets\u2019 refrigeration could be reached directly from the open internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__paragraph\">This will cost France \u201c[t]ens of millions of euros,\u201d Thierry Cotillard, president of the Les Mousquetaires group, which owns Intermarche, <a class=\"LexicalEditorTheme__link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BFMTV\/status\/2109710782325809511?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a Monday interview with BFMTV d on X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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