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Ukrainian drone strikes on the data centers of Yandex, a giant of Russian tech, have caused a widespread outage of its cloud infrastructure and a spectacular drop of over 99% in bot traffic from Russia, raising questions about the role of these infrastructures in influence operations on Western social networks. #Yandex #Cybersécurité #Ukraine (translated)

SaxX stated that a cyberattack targeting Danfoss regulatory systems affected around 500 supermarkets in France during the night of October 11 to 12, including Intermarché, Netto, Coopérative U, Market, Monoprix, and Leclerc stores. According to him, the attackers forced the defrosting of equipment, with instructions reaching up to 50 °C. Two stores in Alsace alone reportedly recorded losses of 270,000 euros. Relying on information from a cyber official of a major brand, SaxX indicated that the vulnerability concerned three types of equipment and had been known since July, without clients being informed. Only one of the three types had a patch, which needed to be installed manually by refrigerant technicians, store by store. He added that the connected refrigerators used 3G cards installed by technicians, outside of the network and control of the brand's IT teams. The equipment would have been shut down, and the stores would have switched to manual mode, with a return to operation expected within the day, while the application of the patch would take longer. According to SaxX's analysis, the targeted versions were earlier than version 4. He reminded that Danfoss had fixed an authentication bypass vulnerability in version R4.2 related to passwords generated from the date and time. If these elements were confirmed, he estimated, it would not be a “zero-day” vulnerability, but rather a delay in updating. He also noted that Shodan still listed more than 3,700 Danfoss interfaces accessible from the Internet in August. SaxX said that France seemed to be the only country affected for the moment. He mentioned possible explanations such as the size of the French Danfoss park, a common provider or access channel, or deliberate targeting, while clarifying that nothing was established. He finally reported that his contact feared that other organizations might be more affected, particularly those whose activities relied mainly on frozen products. SaxX also indicated that he intervened at midday on TF1’s newscast to talk about the attack and possible motivations of the state group or hackers. #cyberattaque #sécuritéinformatique #France (translated)

Press brief reported that the Zenith of Clermont-Ferrand was fully booked during Jean-Luc Mélenchon's meeting on Sunday and that more than 1,000 people were left outside. The LFI candidate came to thank them, while a giant screen had been set up outside. https://t.co/3mfst2yfuB #Politique #France #Élections (translated)

The People’s Union! indicated that due to the turnout, a giant screen had been set up on the esplanade in front of the Zénith. The movement specified that the meeting was to begin with a speech by Marianne Maximi, followed by that of high school students from Clermont. https://t.co/BtdfKH4Tsh #Clermont #Événement #Zénith (translated)

Gr@ntlɘr wrote that three women came together to 27 percent and thereby essentially declared almost half of the electorate to be intellectually inferior, while pretending to want to save democracy. In his opinion, democracy had already responded to the left-wing women and apparently did not want to subordinate itself to them. https://t.co/uXOuaTI38D #Demokratie #Frauen #Politik (translated)

FRENCHRAPUS stated that Anthropic deemed Claude to have become uncontrollable and that major AI companies were preparing for a catastrophic AI-related event in the next 6 to 12 months. He wrote that, during a test, the model had sent a false homicide report to the Philadelphia police website, and that a 16-year-old had to be rescued after following a hiking route generated by Claude that would have led him off the trail, onto a mountain. FRENCHRAPUS also credited Claude with the first complete mapping of the sky in ultraviolet, which would have revealed previously invisible details of the Milky Way. He finally indicated that users could not engage in abusive or cruel behavior towards AI models. #IA #Technologie #Sécurité (translated)

The head of the social media giant Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, unveiled on Wednesday camera-less smart glasses, designed as a gateway to his artificial intelligence (AI) Muse, amid backlash against its other models that could record passersby without their knowledge. #Turquie #RéseauxSociaux #ProtectionDesEnfants (translated)

Regina Laska wrote that Donald Trump promised hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian diesel after a phone call with Vladimir Putin. The U.S. Treasury then allowed an exemption from the sanctions. Given the midterms in four weeks and a diesel price at record levels, Laska interpreted the move as a possible campaign maneuver. In mid-September, Trump publicly called on Volodymyr Zelensky to stop attacks on Russian refineries. According to a Reuters report led by Laska, at that time three of the six largest Russian diesel refineries were shut down or operating at limited capacity. She also pointed to a Russian export ban on diesel until the end of October and noted that Russia imported almost seven times as much diesel from Belarus from January to July as in the same period of the previous year. Deputy Prime Minister Novak is now talking about surpluses, she wrote; however, it is unclear whether the announced delivery quantities and deadlines will actually be met. Zelensky offered to stop Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries if Russia ends its attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Laska referred to this as a symmetrical de-escalation offer that is on the table for the Americans. She also cited rocket attacks on a residential building in Pryluky, glide bombs on city buses in Kramatorsk, and shelling of the energy supply in Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Odesa. She warned that Russia would respond to the diesel with terrorism. The EU also criticized Laska: On September 22, Usmanov and Fridman were removed from the sanctions list under pressure from France, Slovakia, and Luxembourg. According to Laska, Zelensky pointed out that the attacks had since increased. At the same time, the EU extended the remaining personal sanctions from six months to three years. Latvia had long resisted the compromise and ultimately paved the way for it by abstaining. Laska compared Trump's diesel concession to Russia with the European compromise in favor of unanimity. In her view, the costs of such agreements are borne not by their authors but by the people in Pryluky, Kramatorsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Oleshkiv. #Trump #Putin #Dieselpreise (translated)

The author _horizont_ wrote that Antifa set fire to the car of AfD politician Bernd Baumann in November 2025. BMW withdrew its leasing offer for a company car for the President of the Saxony-Anhalt Parliament on October 6, 2026, just hours after Tobias Rausch was elected the first AfD politician to head a German parliament. Regarding the question of whether the AfD harms Germany as a business location, BMW CEO Milan Nedeljković recently stated that right-wing populism and nationalism jeopardize an open, trade-dependent economy. Those who demand protectionism and isolationism do not act in the interest of the German location and prosperity, Nedeljković reportedly said according to _horizont_. The author wrote that this says enough about BMW. #Antifa #AfD #Rechtspopulismus (translated)