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CERT Polska's report on a December 2025 intrusion at a Polish CHP plant describes what it calls the first real-world use of a private APN as an attack path. The controller they landed on still had its default admin password.
Reported almost everywhere as a $1 billion fine, the figure is €890 million: €460m for preferencing its own services in Search and €430m for restricting how developers steer users to cheaper deals. The consequence that matters is what happens after day 60.
Member states had until the end of July to implement the Right to Repair directive. The bigger change comes in 2027, when phones, tablets, earbuds and laptops sold in the EU must let users swap the battery with ordinary tools.
Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 entered into force on 27 July, moving Annex III high-risk obligations to December 2027 and embedded systems to August 2028. Prohibitions, GPAI rules and transparency duties are unaffected — and already in force.
Attack volume jumped nearly 20% month over month. Qilin alone accounted for 372 incidents across Europe, hitting 26 of 31 countries analyzed.