As companies running refrigeration units in the U.S. and Europe recover from recent hacking incidents, threat intelligence firms have disclosed more than a dozen new serious security vulnerabilities in popular products, while others continue to track intense interest from potential threat actors in similar internet-connected devices.
Researchers continue to find serious vulnerabilities in internet connected refrigerators
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