Someone in Europe right now:

Blaming on “common enemy “ . - Stage 3 Don’t have an enemy? Create them.. don’t have to be real. Then create Chaos. Blame it on invisible enemies. After Chaos, it’s time to fix what you have started and claimed to be a hero. Profit.

Connection is fine. As long as it's for sensirs-reporting/read only purposes it might be helpful.

Samsung:

Imagine being so desperate to target fridges

except there was an actual reason to have these connected to the internet the problem was that the security behind it was shit, and those who managed them didn't raise an eyebrow or couldn't be bothered to set it up properly their fucking fault it got exploited and tonnes of food

Honestly, a freezer that sends you a text when the power is out would be a nice feature to be honest. Getting that text when you are not purposely defrosting it, could save you a mess and a bunch of food you need to throw out ?

Add: cut all internet connection to Russia!

It's not even the internet connection, the freezers had ancient firmware with documented exploits. After the same happened in France last month, the company producing them urged anyone still using them to update the firmware to a readily available version where the vulnerability

why should a fridge need internet connection in the first place? Back 10 years ago at ces the first "smart" fridges were shown. Stupid as hell back then but maybe you see the value with time. But nope, still as stupid

Context: Some supermarket fridges got hacked and the temperature was set too high.