Kevin BeaumontGossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Oct 13, 2026, 1:51 PMThis 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.
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- Kevin BeaumontGossiTheDog@cyberplace.socialOct 13, 2026, 6:54 PM
I was being too glib with zero skill in this thread, as it evidently needs some skill. I’m tempted to do a write up but a bit worried about defrosting cold storage warehouses 😅
- Kevin BeaumontGossiTheDog@cyberplace.socialOct 14, 2026, 4:55 PM
Oct 13, 2026, 5:57 PM@GossiTheDog What a meltdown...
Oct 14, 2026, 4:57 PM> running a cryptocurrency miner
ahh, so that's how they got the fridges warm 😜
- zsapizsapi@mastodon.socialOct 14, 2026, 5:53 PM
@GossiTheDog Are you sure they were mining crypto? In the article they say that is unlikely: 'The devices are low-powered and on slow cellular links, which rules out crypto mining and makes them poor for denial-of-service.'
Did an LLM mess up the summary? 🙃 - Kevin BeaumontGossiTheDog@cyberplace.socialOct 14, 2026, 6:54 PM
@zsapi no, it means I can’t read 🤣