Supermarket and grocery-store refrigeration systems across Europe were hit again in the early hours of Monday (2 November), the second such wave in three weeks: retailers reported a "limited number" of smaller stores affected in Sweden, more than 50 in Belgium, and over a dozen across Ireland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, with freezers remotely set to 50 degrees Celsius to spoil stock. No government agency has identified the perpetrators — the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium is aware and says "it may not be possible to identify them" — and neither the October French wave (around 700 victims per the Paris prosecutor's office) nor Monday's has been claimed. Technicians (including Belgium's Sabcobel, mobilised from 1 a.m.) report affected units need physical modification, not just software updates: the Estonian contractor blamed an older Danfoss system, and Dutch outlet NOS reported Copeland equipment targeted in Belgium — both vendors say the devices are discontinued and out of support, and the EU's Cyber Resilience Act will not oblige manufacturers to provide support periods until December 2027. CCB's spokesperson linked the rising incident count to "the targeted use of AI" in vulnerability discovery over the past six months, though not specifically to this attack.

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