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What I don't get about the refrigerator hacks, why are they still connected to the net after the first hack in France?
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Proszę zauważyć, że mamy do czynienia z bezprecedensową skalą współpracy w sieci między kontami i propagandystami rosyjskimi, a globalną skrajną prawicą. To jest ewidentny sojusz. A przynajmniej współdziałanie. To powinno wszystkim nam dać do myślenia, kto chce w Polsce zamieszać i komu to służy.
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UPDATE: The Netherlands is also under cyberattack, with refrigeration systems at at least 17 businesses targeted overnight.
Attackers manipulated temperature settings in cooling and freezing systems, affecting businesses including butcher shops, local stores and frozen food storage facilities.
The Netherlands has now joined the five other countries hit by cyberattacks targeting supermarket refrigeration systems across Europe this morning.
The situation this morning in Europe:
A cyberattack is disrupting supermarket refrigeration systems across several European countries, including Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia and Ireland.
• What is happening: A vulnerability in specific refrigeration control software is allowing attackers to remotely manipulate freezer systems, causing temperatures to rise as high as +50°C.
• Supermarkets are facing massive food losses, with fresh, chilled and frozen products being discarded due to food safety risks. Some stores have experienced temporary closures and delayed openings.
The issue involves connected refrigeration systems whose software and security vulnerabilities are being exploited, allowing attackers to interfere with temperature controls remotely.
Retailers are responding, working with cybersecurity specialists and taking affected products off sale to protect consumers.
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BREAKING: Estonia is now the latest country hit by a cyberattack targeting supermarket refrigeration systems, following incidents reported this morning in Belgium, Sweden, and Luxembourg.
Hackers reportedly accessed the control system of a large supermarket chain and remotely raised a freezer's temperature to +50°C.
According to Kitman Coldtech CEO Jann Mutso, several clients in Estonia have been targeted. The attack exploited vulnerabilities in older refrigeration controllers.
The incident was detected and addressed within approximately 10 minutes, preventing major damage.
Major Estonian supermarket chains reportedly using the affected technology include Selver, Rimi, Coop, and Lidl.
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🇧🇪 BREAKING UPDATE: BELGIAN REFRIGERATION INCIDENT EXTENDS BEYOND SUPERMARKETS
At least 55 retail locations are now confirmed affected by refrigeration system disruptions across Belgium, with additional incidents reported at butcher shops.
Confirmed figures:
- Delhaize: Approximately 40 stores
- Carrefour: 15 stores
- Additional incidents at the De Laet & Van Haver butcher chain
The affected locations are not limited to conventional supermarkets. They also include Q8 petrol station convenience stores (Shop & Go), Proxy Delhaize outlets and shops along major motorways.
Particularly concerning: The De Laet & Van Haver butcher chain reported that its refrigeration settings had been remotely altered, activating defrost cycles and causing components to heat up.
Staff reportedly intervened before temperatures became dangerously high.
Elsewhere, refrigeration temperatures reached approximately 15°C, forcing some stores to discard food products.
🇧🇪🇸🇪 UPDATE: REFRIGERATION DISRUPTIONS SPREAD ACROSS EUROPE - SWEDEN AND BELGIUM AFFECTED
IN SWEDEN:
• At least 6 ICA supermarkets affected by suspected refrigeration system hacks.
• Coop has now CONFIRMED that 6 of its stores in central Sweden are also affected.
• Freezer temperatures reportedly reached 50°C.
• Stores have been forced to discard large quantities of food, with some temporarily closing.
IN BELGIUM:
• Multiple Delhaize supermarkets are reporting abnormal refrigeration temperatures.
• Store managers were alerted around 04:00 this morning.
• Temperatures reportedly rose to 15°C.
• Affected locations include Malonne, Pont-à-Celles, Le Rœulx and Ath.
• Some stores have been forced to discard entire refrigerated inventories.
The incidents follow similar cyberattacks against hundreds of French supermarkets in October.
The cause of the Belgian disruptions remains unconfirmed, and no technical connection between the incidents has yet been established.
Monitoring developments.
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BREAKING: Belgium is now affected too by a major IT incident disrupting refrigeration systems across multiple supermarket chains.
More than 40 Delhaize stores, 15 Carrefour locations, and around five Spar outlets are reporting problems.
Refrigerators and freezers are reportedly heating up to 15°C, putting food supplies at risk.
That's the 3th attack of this type? France, US base supply and this
BREAKING: 🇸🇪 Swedish grocery giant ICA, one of Sweden's largest supermarket chains, says several of its stores have been hit by a cyberattack overnight, causing refrigerators and freezers to be remotely set to 50°C.
The incident has likely resulted in large quantities of food spoiling. Multiple stores, including ICA Kvantum in Sjöbo and Tomelilla, have reported being affected.
ICA says stores will remain closed during the morning and are expected to reopen at 9:00 a.m. Swedish time.
The company has apologized to customers and says it is working to restore normal operations.
The incident comes amid a wave of cyberattacks targeting businesses recent weeks, following similar incidents reported in France and the United States.
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Okay:
- Attached bottlecap
- Schengen, expanded to Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria
- The euro joined by Croatia and Bulgaria
- Air passenger rights (older, 2004, newly updated 2025)
- Galileo satellite navigation
- EU-Canada trade deal (CETA)
- EU-Mercosur trade deal
- EU-Japan trade deal
- EU-Singapore trade deal
- EU-Vietnam trade deal
- EU-Indonesia trade deal
- End of roaming charges, extended to 2032
- Price cap on calls and texts to other EU countries
- USB-C common charger
- Geo-blocking ban for online shopping
- Streaming subscriptions that work abroad
- Payment Services Directive (PSD2), no card surcharges and open banking
- Instant payments regulation
- EU Digital Identity Wallet
- eCall automatic crash alert in new cars
- Automatic emergency braking in new cars
- EU-Alert emergency warnings on phones
- Single Digital Gateway for cross-border admin
- No more apostille stamps between member states
- WiFi4EU free public wifi
- DiscoverEU free Interrail passes for 18-year-olds
- Erasmus+ (older, 2014), budget nearly doubled
- European Universities alliances
- European Solidarity Corps
- EU Digital COVID Certificate
- Joint COVID vaccine procurement
- Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
- EU4Health
- Europe's Beating Cancer Plan
- European Health Data Space
- NextGenerationEU joint borrowing
- SURE short-time work loans
- 15% global minimum corporate tax
- European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3), euro clearing back in the EU
- Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)
- European Green Bond Standard
- Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) on defence
- European Defence Fund
- European Peace Facility arms for Ukraine
- EU military training mission for Ukrainian troops
- Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP)
- Strategic Compass and the 5,000-strong rapid deployment capacity
- European Defence Industrial Strategy
- Security Action for Europe (SAFE), €150bn joint defence loans
- ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030
- First ever Commissioner for Defence and Space
- Military mobility funding
- IRIS² sovereign satellite constellation
- EU Space Programme and the EU Agency for the Space Programme
- rescEU shared firefighting fleet
- 5G security toolbox
- Foreign investment screening
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- International Procurement Instrument
- Anti-Coercion Instrument
- Dual-use export control regulation
- Temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees
- Candidate status and accession talks for Ukraine and Moldova
- Ukraine Facility
- €90bn joint-borrowing loan to Ukraine
- Sanctions on Russia (older, 2014), big packages from 2022
- Russian banks cut from SWIFT
- Russian oil embargo and oil price cap
- Russian gas import phase-out
- Western Balkans Growth Plan
- Global Gateway
- REPowerEU
- Gas storage regulation
- Joint gas buying through AggregateEU
- Coordinated gas demand cut
- Windfall levy on fossil energy profits
- Electricity market reform
- European Climate Law, net zero by 2050
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
- Emissions Trading System reform and the Social Climate Fund
- Renewable Energy Directive, 42.5% by 2030
- European Wind Power Package
- European Hydrogen Bank
- Methane regulation
- Nature Restoration Law
- Ambient air quality directive
- Drinking water directive
- Urban wastewater directive, polluter pays
- Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA)
- Conflict minerals regulation
- European Chips Act
- Net-Zero Industry Act
- Batteries Regulation with battery passport
- European Battery Alliance
- Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on batteries and hydrogen
- EuroHPC supercomputers, including JUPITER
- InvestAI and the AI gigafactories
- Horizon Europe and the European Innovation Council
- Ecodesign regulation, no destroying unsold clothes
- Right to repair
- Ban on products made with forced labour
- Ban on vague greenwashing claims
- General Product Safety Regulation
- Common Agricultural Policy (older, 1962), current version 2023 to 2027
- Unfair trading practices directive protecting farmers
- Geographical indications reform for food, wine and spirits
- EU-China agreement protecting European regional products
- Geographical indications for crafts, like Murano glass and Delft Blue
- Creative Europe (older, 2014), current programme 2021
- Culture Moves Europe grants for artists
- Music Moves Europe
- European Year of Cultural Heritage
- European Capitals of Culture (older, 1985)
- New European Bauhaus
- European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage
- Ban on importing looted cultural goods
- 30% European content on streaming platforms
- Culture Compass for Europe
- European Media Freedom Act
- Anti-SLAPP directive protecting journalists
- European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO)
- Rule of law conditionality on EU funds
- Annual Rule of Law Report
- Article 7 against Hungary
- Whistleblower protection directive
- European Labour Authority
- Work-life balance directive, paternity leave
- Adequate minimum wages directive
- Pay transparency directive
- Women on boards directive
- Violence against women directive
- European Child Guarantee
- European Accessibility Act
- European Disability Card
- Rail passenger rights (older, 2007), recast 2021
- Trans-European Transport Network (older), revised 2024
- Single Market Emergency Instrument
- EU Inc (proposed)
- Digital euro (in negotiation)
- Next EU budget at close to €2 trillion (proposed)
- European Competitiveness Fund (proposed)
- AgoraEU culture and media programme (proposed)
- Savings and Investments Union (proposed)
- European supervision of big stock exchanges and crypto firms (proposed)
- Scaleup Europe Fund (launching)
- Startup and Scaleup Strategy
- Digital Omnibus simplification (proposed)
- European Business Wallet (proposed)
- European Innovation Act (expected)
- Quantum Act (expected)
- Cloud and AI Development Act (expected)
- Chips Act 2.0 (expected)
- Biotech Act (proposed)
- Advanced Materials Act (expected)
- Industrial Accelerator Act (expected)
- Circular Economy Act (expected)
- Critical Medicines Act (proposed)
- EU Space Act (proposed)
- European Grids Package (proposed)
- 2040 climate target of 90% (in negotiation)
- European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP)
- Defence Readiness Omnibus (proposed)
- Military mobility package (proposed)
- European Drone Defence Initiative and Eastern Flank Watch
- High-speed rail linking European capitals (plan)
- Single cross-border train ticketing (expected)
- EU Customs Authority (in negotiation)
- European Affordable Housing Plan
- Union of Skills and cross-border recognition of qualifications
- EU-India trade deal (in negotiation)
- Montenegro and Albania accession
- Qualified majority voting in foreign policy (under discussion)
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Read the FBI alert on the Binance theft carefully. It does not ask THORChain to block anything. It asks "THORNode operators". That is a different request.
THORChain has no company, no CEO and no address for a subpoena. It has about a hundred people running nodes with keys. The FBI just handed each of them a list of 1,078 wallets and a sentence saying these belong to North Korea. Nobody is ordered to do anything. But from today, no operator who routes one of those addresses gets to say he did not know.
In September, Bitget asked THORChain to block its stolen funds. The answer was no, on principle, and the principle held because the request came from a company. The same request from the FBI does not go to the protocol. It goes to the people. A protocol can have a principle. A node operator has a jurisdiction.
The only thing that paused the laundering this week was an Ethereum reorg that made THORChain refund 10 ETH twice. The network stopped itself to protect its pools. Whether the operators will stop it on purpose is now a personal decision for each of them, made with the FBI's list in hand.
The FBI is releasing information advising the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of more than $6 billion USD in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, on or about October 29, 2026. The FBI refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as "TraderTraitor."
The FBI, together with partners at the USSS and IRS-CI, has observed TraderTraitor actors converting stolen assets primarily into Ethereum (ETH). It is expected these assets will then be further laundered by converting them using DeFi and instant swap services as they prepare them for further laundering stages.
How You Can Help:
FBI, USSS, and IRS-CI are urging private sector entities including THORNode operators, RPC node operators, instant exchanges, DeFi services, blockchain analytics firms, and other virtual asset service providers to block transactions with or derived from addresses TraderTraitor actors are using to launder these stolen assets.
A list of addresses associated with this activity is available here: fbi.gov/investigate/cyber/al…
ALT FBI public service announcement with Department of Justice seal in the background on a gold gradient.
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Wszystkie ruskie aktywa w Europie krytykują Tuska.
Czyli sytuacja w Polsce idzie w doskonałym kierunku🇵🇱👏
Trzymajmy prozachodni azymut💪
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Watching every Russian, Israeli, and US right-wing grifter, along with a wave of bot accounts across multiple countries, screech in unison about Tusk’s actions in Poland only further confirms that he did the right thing and who PiS really represents.
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Was wir in Polen sehen ist kein Putsch, sondern die Rückabwicklung eines Putsches. Und die letzten Zuckungen des korrupten PiS-Regimes.
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The events at the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw last night were not elegant but the alternative was to concede an unconstitutional transformation of Poland into a presidential republic.
Poland continues to be ruled by a coalition government elected by parliament.
The stand off around Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal is about restoring rule of law to an institution which had been politicised by the populist government which lost power in the election of 2023. Its president repeatedly broke the law by steering politically sensitive cases to hand-picked judges. It failed to pass its own budget,
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Dmitrij Miedwiediew, były prezydent Rosji, stwierdził, że w Polsce doszło do zamachu stanu, a “liberałowie Tuska, protegowanego Brukseli, uciskają konserwatystów z PiS”. I wszystko jasne.
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⚠️ A little fact-checking on the alarming preparedness warnings circulating online.
I’m seeing a lot of claims suggesting that governments around the world are suddenly telling citizens to prepare for war, blackouts, and major infrastructure collapse.
Having been deeply involved with Team Reality during COVID, I understand why these reports are unsettling.
People remember what it felt like when governments began announcing emergency measures, seemingly in unison. They remember wondering what officials knew, what they weren’t telling us, and what they themselves should be doing.
Frankly, it was traumatizing for almost all of us. The aftermath still feels like time shifted and we all lost…something.
But we need to be careful not to let those memories substitute for facts. We need to not let panic porn take over the narrative.
So I checked the dates.
🇸🇪 Sweden: Distributed its updated In Case of Crisis or War brochure in November 2024.
🇳🇴 Norway: Published its national preparedness white paper in January 2025.
🇪🇺 European Union: Announced its 72-hour civilian preparedness strategy in March 2025.
🇫🇷 France: Published its Tous responsables emergency guide in November 2025. Despite claims suggesting France is suddenly sending emergency instructions to all its citizens, the guide was published last year. Plans for mass postal distribution were reportedly abandoned.
🇯🇵 Japan: Has maintained disaster-preparedness guidance for years, including recommendations for several days to a week’s worth of supplies. This is not a newly announced emergency mobilization related to Iran.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom: Launched its Be Ready campaign on October 22, 2026. This is genuinely recent. It recommends three days of basic supplies for disruptions involving weather, electricity, water, communications, and other emergencies.
🇺🇸 United States: The Pentagon’s recent planning to make military installations more resilient is also real.
But here’s an important distinction:
The military preparing for a contingency does not mean civilians have been instructed to prepare for that contingency.
A military base preparing to function independently for an extended period is not a warning that American households should expect a 90-day blackout or rush to imitate military preparations.
Plainly put - this wasn’t a recent synchronized global action. Far from it. Yes there are geographically specific risks - and that’s always been true. Political risks varying have also varied and always been true.
What the facts do not establish is a sudden, synchronized global emergency warning ahead of the November 3 U.S. midterms.
Things are not all “pointing in one direction.”
So we should be especially cautious about how these stories are packaged.
Panic porn sells.
Fear generates clicks, advertising revenue, and an entire market for people selling certainty about an uncertain future.
That doesn’t mean every warning is dishonest or every preparedness product is unnecessary. But it does mean we should examine sensational claims before accepting the narrative they’re selling.
When years-old announcements are assembled into an apparently urgent global warning, people naturally begin wondering what they’re missing.
What do governments know? What should I be buying? Why am I not doing more?
And there’s something particularly troubling about this.
Fear can make people stop trusting their own judgment.
Instead of observing what’s actually happening, they begin looking to the next frightening headline for instructions.
As Frank Herbert wrote in Dune, “Fear is the mind-killer.”
And fear can become a habit.
We learned during COVID how quickly an atmosphere of emergency can transform everyday life. That experience should make us more attentive to facts, not more susceptible to another frightening narrative.
There is no way to prepare for every conceivable catastrophe. Nor should we spend our lives trying…
perfect summary
If you’re confused by what’s going on in Poland: loser President and anti-Ukrainian troll @NawrockiKn, beloved by fans of Russia like @FarRightSkip etc, has been trying to block elected judges from being seated. Prime Minister @donaldtusk ended his attempted coup, seated the judges, and Nawrocki is whining about it. He can’t do anything to stop it; he lost. Well done Poland! 🇵🇱 🤝🇺🇦
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Over the last three years a new majority of judges was duly elected by parliament and demanded to be able to function. The outgoing president of the tribunal kept blocking them, The most senior judge of the new majority took charge of the tribunal premises and asked the police for protection. Our populist opposition is unfortunately refusing to accept its loss of control over the Tribunal. The democratically elected government will continue to uphold the constitution.