🌡 🇪🇺 🏬 Second wave of suspected cyberattacks hits supermarket freezers across Europe

Supermarket and grocery store refrigerators across Europe appear to have been hacked in the early hours of Monday morning — the second such wave of hacks in recent weeks where attackers have manipulated temperature controls and caused stock to spoil.

Retailers said a “limited number” of smaller stores in Sweden were impacted, while more than 50 have been identified in Belgium and over a dozen others in Ireland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

The incident has been described as a cyberattack by retail companies and equipment suppliers, although no law enforcement or government agency has yet identified the perpetrators.

It comes three weeks after a similar cyberattack hit hundreds of supermarkets in France, when hackers compromised internet-exposed remote controllers for refrigeration systems at numerous supermarkets.

“We can’t adjust the temperatures, we can’t change them. Heat is blowing into the freezers. Everything is ruined,” Rickard Nilsson, a supermarket manager in southern Sweden, told broadcaster TV4.

https://therecord.media/cyberattack-grocery-freezers-europe

🇮🇷🕊🇺🇸 Vice President JD Vance's letter to Tehran "has no new basis," and Iran's demands still stand, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday, adding that the Strait of Hormuz cannot reopen before the US lifts its blockade of Iranian ports.

At his weekly press conference, Baghaei also said:

⚫️ Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, will decide how to answer the letter, since it was addressed to him, "based on the country's highest interests"

⚫️ Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is responsible for and leading the recent negotiations, and coordination among Iran's top authorities and senior decision-makers is "unprecedented"

⚫️ The basis for talks with the US remains Iran's seven-stage plan, which has now been "compressed"

"There is absolutely no trust between Iran and America," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday. "By trust, I mean that you at least have relative confidence that the other side won't tear up its signature after two or three weeks. Such a thing doesn't exist."

Baghaei said Washington must lift its sanctions and the naval blockade it has imposed on Iran over the past four or five months before talks on other issues can begin. "You cannot maintain these absolutely illegal measures and then expect Iran to enter another stage of negotiations," he said.

Nuclear talks haven't started, he said, because "as long as Iran's demands are not implemented, it is logically impossible" to move on to other subjects.

Recall that Iran's main 7 demands are:

1.End all combat operations across the region, including in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Gaza.

2. Release frozen Iranian assets held in foreign banks.

3. Lift the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports.

4. Remove economic and political sanctions against Iran.

5. Withdraw U.S. troops from the region.

6. Pay war reparations for damages caused during the war.

7. End U.S. threats and hostile rhetoric directed at the Islamic regime.

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💵 🇺🇸 🏬 Half of Americans’ Spending Goes to Housing and Food, Most in 15 Years

Food and housing — which includes rent, utilities and household furniture — were the only two major spending categories to post statistically significant increases last year, according to the BLS.

Housing remained the largest household expense, accounting for 33.9% of total expenditures. Excluding a jump in 2020 after Covid hit, that share was the highest since 2010.

The share of spending Americans dedicate to food, meanwhile, has been rising since 2020 and at 13% is now the highest since 2011. The dollar value of the food budget — up 4.6% to $10,633 in 2025 — outpaced the increase in total spending.

Americans spent $1,579 on meat, poultry, fish and eggs last year. That’s 11.7% more than in 2024 and twice as much as in 2010.

Those products accounted for about 24% of grocery spending in 2025, up from 19% in 2023. Over those two years, protein accounted for about 95% of the increase in average food-at-home spending.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-30/housing-food-costs-make-up-half-of-americans-spending-most-in-15-years

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🇺🇸❌🇿🇦According to the statement, the Trump administration’s concerns about Rwanda include barriers to trade and investment, the rule of law and political pluralism. In South Africa, it said, the administration is deeply concerned about barriers to US trade and investment, corruption and threats to US national security and foreign-policy interests.

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