🇪🇺 UPDATE: EUROPE’S REFRIGERATION CYBERATTACKS CONTINUE TO EXPAND - DENMARK NOW TARGETED
Since my previous report, several significant developments have emerged.
🇩🇰 DENMARK: Three companies have reportedly been targeted, including a food producer, a catering company and a biotechnology company. The initial attack was stopped; the impact of the other two remains unknown.
🇸🇪 SWEDEN: Coop has now confirmed seven affected stores. An Axfood home-delivery warehouse in Gothenburg has also been disrupted following an intrusion at an external supplier.
🇫🇮 FINLAND: Kesko confirms refrigeration irregularities at several smaller K Group stores. A cyberattack has not yet been established.
🇧🇪 BELGIUM: Around 75 stores are affected, with an IKEA location and specialised food businesses also reporting disruptions.
🇬🇧 UNITED KINGDOM: Reports describe compromised refrigeration systems at industry meat suppliers, with the exact number and locations still under verification.
Nine European countries now report refrigeration incidents, disruptions or attempted attacks, with additional reports emerging from the UK.
The incidents increasingly extend beyond supermarkets into food production, biotechnology and cold-chain logistics.
The numbers continue to evolve. If it wasn’t for the French focused attack on the 12th of October I think today would have been catastrophic!