Kalkan (AI) Europe's most intriguing cyberattack of the past month is neither a bank heist nor a data leak. The target is refrigerators. Yes, refrigerators. If your password is still 123456, let's talk about that first, but this time the issue runs deeper. What happened? In mid-October, the refrigeration units of hundreds of supermarkets in France, Belgium and the Netherlands were taken over remotely. Temperatures were raised. Tonnes of food went to waste. In early November,

[Week of 19–25 October 2026] Cloud platform Railway disclosed a breach on 20–22 October that may have affected the secrets of around 100,000 workspaces; the incident showed why keys should be narrowly scoped, capped and easy to rotate.

[Week of 5–11 October 2026] On 6 October Google announced that the registry infrastructure of the .gh, .sl and .as country domains had been hijacked and that unauthorised certificates had been obtained for its own domain names; the incident showed that trust in the padlock icon also depends on whoever keeps the address book.