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Europe is on high alert after a fresh wave of cyber attacks, online hoaxes and bomb scares brought major disruption this week, causing tens of millions of euros in estimated losses.

Venture capital investment in European companies hit a half-year record of €11.5bn in the first half of 2026, according to preliminary data from Invest Europe. That is 11% more than a year earlier. The industry body published the figures on Thursday with a survey of fund managers and their investors, run with consultancy Arthur D.…

A suspected cyberattack hit grocery stores across at least nine European countries on Monday 2 November, prompting the EU to warn of a deliberate attempt to disrupt the bloc’s food supply chain.

Dozens of supermarkets in Europe have reported temperatures of their refrigerators and fridges rising overnight, now widely believed to be caused by cyber attacks similar to the one that affected France several weeks ago.

Dozens of supermarkets in Europe have reported temperatures of their refrigerators and fridges rising overnight, now widely believed to be caused by cyber attacks similar to the one that affected France several weeks ago.

Supermarkets across Europe were hit Monday by a new wave of apparent cyberattacks affecting fridges and freezers.

Chains in Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg said fridge temperatures rose overnight, similar to hack that hit French stores in October

A promising climate technology company in Denmark may be looking for growth capital while a specialist investor in Italy is searching for precisely that type of opportunity. Both could spend months relying on local advisers, introductions and fragmented databases without discovering the other. This is not always a shortage of capital or promising businesses. Sometimes…

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Amazon is accelerating the global territorial expansion of K-beauty brands. Next year it will support 100 K-beauty brands entering the European market, while in the United States it will foster new brands and push to expand product categories such as hair care. It will respond to counterfeit goods riding the wave of K-beauty’s popularity with…