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Cyberattack alert in Europe, after supermarket refrigerators, household appliances are at risk

2026-11-11 09:30:35Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Cyberattack alert in Europe, after supermarket refrigerators, household

After recent attacks on supermarket fridges, household appliances could be next, the EU's cyber chief warned on Tuesday, urging Europe to invest more to combat growing cyber threats.

The warning comes at a time when Europe has been hit by numerous cyber incidents in recent months, raising widespread concern, not only from governments but also from the public, about society's vulnerability to cyberattacks and how prepared the continent is to face future cyber threats.

"Security should not and cannot be an afterthought," Juhan Lepassaar, executive director of the EU's cybersecurity agency ENISA, told AFP.

"Today it was refrigerators, tomorrow it could be internet devices, the day after tomorrow it could be home appliances and so on," he said.

All incidents can be avoided and cybersecurity is not cheap, Lepassar said, but the question he asks is: “Are we ready to invest to make this happen?”

"When we look at the threat landscape, the picture is not so rosy," Lepassaar emphasized.

Recent incidents range from a PHP vulnerability that prompted many EU governments to shut down their websites to prevent exploitation by hackers, to a wave of cyberattacks on supermarket refrigerators and blood banks in France and eight other countries that resulted from vulnerabilities in outdated software.

Cyber ​​threats are evolving and becoming more visible, thanks in part to artificial intelligence, and now require organizations to keep pace with the latest advances in artificial intelligence models in a kind of cyber arms race.

"Recent developments not only in advanced artificial intelligence models, but also cyber incidents in cooling systems across the EU highlight operational gaps and the need for timely information sharing and coordination," said Lepassaar.

ENISA also calls AI a “force multiplier,” expanding and accelerating the ability of both hackers and companies protecting themselves to spot vulnerabilities more quickly.

"Data synthesized by researchers shows that the time between detection and weaponization is approaching zero," the report says, suggesting that companies may soon have no time at all to protect themselves from vulnerabilities once systems are launched.

At the same time, the report says that front-end AI is having a tremendous impact on vulnerability management by narrowing response and update times, meaning companies can use AI to proactively check for vulnerabilities and address them before they are exploited by hackers.

Beyond the use of AI as a tool by hackers to discover vulnerabilities on a large scale, the report also highlights that AI will sharpen hackers' existing weapons.

For example, artificial intelligence tools allow attackers to carry out increasingly convincing operations, using fake video, audio and messages to deceive people and “feed systems with faulty data to disrupt corporate operations.”


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