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Received yesterday β€” 21 October 2026 ⏭ /r/netsec - Information Security News & Discussion

France had more Internet-exposed Danfoss refrigeration dashboards than the rest of the world combined before the supermarket attacks (weekly IPv4 scan data)

I work at IPinfo, which runs a weekly scan of the IPv4 Internet. Short version of what we found:

  • October 6–7 scan, five days before the attack: 2,528 addresses serving a Danfoss StoreView dashboard in 73 countries and territories. France had 1,331 (53%).
  • 85% of the French ones ran software with known flaws, including 527 end-of-life AK-SM 800 units. Only 195 had every fix. Elsewhere it was 84%, so France had more of them online, not worse patching.
  • 1,019 of the French addresses were already open on March 30.
  • October 14 scan: 316 still online in France (βˆ’76%, against a normal 3–7% weekly loss). Fully patched units dropped too (195 β†’ 54), which points to disconnection rather than patching.

Method: the newer UI is matched on page title, the older AK-SM 800 on its web server plus the Flash loader page, and firmware generation comes from the build date the dashboard exposes. Counts are addresses on the ports we scan, so they’re a floor. How the attackers got in is still unknown, and exposure isn’t proof of the entry point.

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Received β€” 16 October 2026 ⏭ /r/netsec - Information Security News & Discussion

16% of RPKI-covered IPv4 routes still allow a forged-origin hijack that passes validation, the setup behind the Virtualizor update attack

Author here, I work at IPinfo. some security-relevant highlights part of the post:

  • The August 28 Virtualizor update attack used a forged-origin /24 inside Hetzner’s space. From what we saw, it was RPKI-valid because Hetzner’s ROA covered the /16 and allowed announcements down to /24, and no real /24 existed to compete with it.
  • We also measured how common that setup is. In this case, of 855,217 RPKI-covered IPv4 routes, 138,698 (16.2%) have a ROA looser than the route announced and no more-specific route of their own filling the gap. For IPv6 it’s 20.9%. That’s roughly 18 million more-specifics someone could announce today and come out RPKI-valid and uncontested.
  • Hosting providers also differ a lot: Contabo leaves 540 of 553 covered routes open, DigitalOcean 780 of 863, OVH 11.5%.
  • Invalid routes are being dropped now: a typical valid route is seen by 596 vantage points, an invalid one by 2. So the remaining risk is routes that pass the check, not ones that fail it.
  • There's also the fix in RFC 9319: leave maxLength unset, so a ROA only matches the block you actually announce.

Method is at the end of the post. Happy to answer questions

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