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Temperature and defrosting thresholds raised to ‘very high levels’ at three cold stores stocking vital blood products Europe live – latest updates France’s national blood service has said hackers accessed control systems and boosted temperatures at three cold stores stocking vital blood products, in an apparent escalation of recent cyber-attacks on fridges and freezers across Europe. The French b…

North Korea is said to be behind the theft from the crypto exchange Binance. How did they pull it off and what will they do with the money? Kalyeena Makortoff and Jean H Lee report It was 8pm last Thursday when the panic alarms went off across the crypto world. Binance, the world’s biggest crypto exchange, had been hacked. The cryptocurrency revolution promised to take power from the fusty old ce…

Firm reveals details about how its cryptocurrency exchange was compromised, saying operation began in June The hackers behind the $6.3bn (£4.7bn) Binance heist used bogus job interviews, malicious software and an internal AI tool, the company has revealed. The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange was compromised in an operation that began with an inadvertent download of malware in June, led to…

Cybersecurity experts say incidents had minimal effect but may represent the ‘foothills’ of a wider threat Meat suppliers in the UK have been hit by cyber-attacks after hackers raised the temperatures of supermarket freezers across Europe. The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it was working with the affected companies but that the national impact was minimal. Continue reading...

After a second apparent cyber-attack in as many weeks, we examine possible culprits and their motives Shop fridges and freezers across Europe hit by fresh suspected cyber-attack Supermarket fridges and freezers in seven European countries have malfunctioned , their thermostats remotely cranked up in some cases to 50C (122F). The EU has condemned what it said was “a deliberate attempt to disrupt o…

Chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg say fridge temperatures rose overnight, similar to hack of French stores Supermarket chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg have said the temperatures of their refrigerators and freezers in dozens of stores rose overnight, prompting fears of a cyber-attack similar to one that caused millions of euros of food losses in France. Sweden’s Coop chain told the…

Cryptocurrency exchange has begun to allow withdrawals after theft believed to have come from North Korea Investors have pulled $3.6bn (£2.7bn) in funds from the cryptocurrency exchange Binance as it recovers from a record hack in which billions were stolen from customer accounts. The platform was hit by a $6.3bn theft on Thursday, which has since been described as the biggest heist in history. E…

Cryptocurrency theft is estimated to generate half of the country’s foreign currency income North Korea plays by its own rules. The isolated, secretive and autocratic country is largely cut off from the world’s economic system – but when it comes to generating foreign earnings it relies on some of the world’s most sophisticated hacking. Experts, such as TRM Labs, quickly attributed the extraordin…

David Gibson says the problem is that details of the flaw were revealed before it was fixed, while Charles MacKinnon notes that we are at the mercy of technology we don’t understand Chris Stokel-Walker may be right ( The internet has broken – again. Shouldn’t the tech firms that make billions from it pay to fix it?, 22 October ), but the real issue lies elsewhere. The bugs in the PHP programming …

The theft from Binance could be the biggest theft of any kind in history. We answer some key questions North Korean group blamed for $6.3bn crypto heist Tell us: have you been affected? The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange has been hit by a $6.3bn heist that, according to experts, is likely to be the work of North Korea . This is not the first time a crypto market has been targeted by hack…

Report calls for an effort to tackle harms in similar way to obesity and smoking, and stresses need to ‘offer boys something better’ The manosphere and online misogyny should be treated by the government as a public health issue, in the same way as obesity or smoking, experts have said. Writing in the Lancet, the authors of a new report argue that a coordinated response is needed, involving gover…

Guardian columnist, senior economics commentator and host of the new Radical Thinking podcast Aditya Chakrabortty will be online at 2pm GMT (9am EDT) on Friday to answer your questions on the big ideas around economics, society and democracy Send your questions to conversations@theguardian.com or join the discussion on Friday from 8am Aditya Chakrabortty is the Guardian’s award-winning senior eco…

Social media companies including Meta have pulled back on efforts to protect voters from election-meddling lies Social media feeds are awash with an unprecedented flood of AI -driven disinformation ahead of November’s US midterm elections , according to experts, who warn many posts are likely “slipping through the cracks”. As tens of millions of Americans prepare to cast their vote, social media …

‘Session cookies’ are a primary target for hackers letting them hijack and use your accounts You’ve had a busy morning of life admin, logging into various accounts to check balances and make payments. At the end of a productive few hours you close your laptop and move on to your next job. What you don’t know is that fraudsters have hijacked your session with the bank and are now able to access yo…

Government’s emergency planning advice has sparked sales of essentials but no panic stockpiling, say prepping shop owners When the UK government launched its “Protect and Survive” public information campaign in 1980 on how to survive a nuclear attack, it was met with a combination of scepticism, disbelief and derision. The advice included how to build a “fallout room” at home, how to whitewash wi…