Cyber hackers could target home appliances next after commercial refrigerators and freezers were breached in hundreds of supermarkets last month, an EU chief has warned.
Executive director of the EU’s cybersecurity agency Juhan Lepassaar said on Tuesday anything from routers to home appliances could be hit as he warned that ‘security should not be an afterthought’.
The hacks which struck supermarkets in October were among the most disruptive cyber attacks in 2026, which have included the targeting of Los Angeles‘ transit system in March and US water treatments in July.
Only yesterday, French officials accused Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards of orchestrating the attacks –
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