Lightning may not strike the same place twice, but hackers appear to be targeting the same systems, as refrigeration becomes the next frontier for cyberattacks. About 20 refrigerator systems in supermarkets Delhaize, Carrefour and Spar experienced outages late Sunday night into Monday morning, Stephan Moelans, CEO of refrigeration installer Sabcobel, told Belgium’s Belga News Agency
Grocery stores in Sweden and Belgium have reported rising temperatures in some of their refrigeration systems, suspected to be the result of hacks, weeks after a cyberattack on fridges and freezers in France that forced supermarkets to throw away food. “Unauthorized actors were able to access and tamper with the cooling systems at a small
Two major trading platforms — Binance and Polymarket — were investigating security incidents on Thursday, with the former facing potential losses in the billions. There’s no evidence the incidents were related. Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, said it was actively investigating reports of a “potential security issue.” In an update late
Trading has resumed on Polymarket’s flagship international platform after a hack that drained money from the wallets of some traders. A third-party vendor based in the United Kingdom was breached, not the prediction market’s website itself. Law enforcement in the UK have been notified of the incident, the company said. Trading was initially paused while
Bluesky is blocking users from opening links to a newly leaked archive of records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, and labels the pages “malicious.” The files include people’s email addresses and phone numbers, “shared without their authorization,” Bluesky tells WIRED, in violation of its community guidelines. The company says
Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here, filling in for Beatrice Nolan. In today’s issue: Researchers discover a security flaw affecting 70% of the web Anthropic could file for IPO as soon as tomorrow Anthropic unveils Duet, its rival to OpenAI’s Dots and Meta’s Muse AI-driven layoffs at Barclay’s I’ve been covering the growing
