Adnkronos (Adnkronos) – With a video on social media, pro-Russian hacker activists NoName057(16), in collaboration with Zpentest, have claimed responsibility for the attacks on the cold chain in supermarkets in several European countries. The news was anticipated by Tg1 on social media.
The attacks occurred across half of Europe, including Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Finland, Ireland, and Estonia, remotely altering the temperatures of refrigeration systems, which reached temperatures as high as 50 degrees.
The British meat processing industry has also been hit by cyberattacks, said senior cybersecurity official Paul Chichester, director of operations at the National Cyber Security Centre. The impact was minimal, Chichester said. In Germany, the refrigeration systems of a supermarket run by the Arbeiterwohlfahrt charity in Wetter-Volmarstein, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, were attacked.
Temperatures rose both in the store's refrigerated counters and in the outdoor storage areas. The supermarket was forced to throw away large quantities of food. The extent of the damage is still unclear. According to Sandrae Salten, head of the organization, the hackers' real target was the company that handles remote maintenance of the refrigeration systems.
As for Italy, Palazzo Chigi – after a meeting between the Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council Alfredo Mantovano and the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, which was attended by the director of the National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN) and the directors of the intelligence agencies – made it known that there is no alarm but maximum attention.
"From initial investigations," the government announced yesterday, "it emerges that the impact of the attacks in Italy is currently very limited: only a few commercial establishments have been affected, compared to the thousands present throughout the country. Most of these establishments are still equipped with obsolete security systems, with interfaces exposed directly to the Internet and deficiencies in authentication mechanisms."
“Most of the distribution chain is equipped with updated protection systems, capable of repelling malicious intrusions”.
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