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Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?

The official message after the fridge attacks is: expect more disruption.
We are in the “foothills” of a new hacking landscape, the head of the
UK’s National Cyber Security Centre said this week. Referring to flaws in
IT systems that are being exposed by AI technology, the NCSC boss, Richard
Horne, said: “There are so many vulnerabilities out there that … you
could say are waiting to be exploited.”

He added: “The most serious
risk we face in the short term is just a huge rise in the volume of
incidents … and I think you could probably point to the last few months
and say we’ve started to see that.” Websites around the world were
temporarily taken out of service as a precaution last month when AI
technology from the ChatGPT developer OpenAI helped discover a flaw in PHP,
a computer language used to build much of the world wide web. French
supermarket fridges were also attacked last month in what could have been a
trial run for the more expansive foray this week.

Guardian 8th Nov 2026, https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/nov/08/hot-fridges-a-fake-nuclear-alert-and-a-6bn-heist-are-we-in-the-foothills-of-a-hacking-epidemic

November 11, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | technology