European supermarket fridges hacked from Sweden to Belgium, raising temperatures across the continent

LuizaJarovsky · x · 2026-11-03

Per Reuters, European supermarket fridges are under cyberattack again, with stores across a vast swathe of the continent from Sweden to Belgium hit by a hack that raised their temperatures — echoing a similar incident in France last month.

AI governance researcher Luiza Jarovsky warns this will keep happening daily until the internet and every IT system are redesigned to defend against agentic AI threats — IoT attack surfaces are becoming a systemic risk in the agent era.

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