354 dark web vendors and buyers arrested in Operation TorNado 2026-11-13 at 13:06 By Mirko Zorz Europol and police in 14 countries arrested 354 dark web vendors and buyers in Operation TorNado, which ran from May 2025 to October 2026. Investigators went after people who had traded on five marketplaces that were already offline: Archetyp, […]
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Photos: IRISSCON 2026 cybercrime conference 2026-11-12 at 12:16 By Zeljka Zorz IRISSCON 2026, the annual cybercrime conference organized by IRISSCERT, took place at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on November 11. The all-day event gives attendees a look at the cyber threats businesses are facing right now, along with practical advice on how organizations can […]
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The Cyber Resilience Act clock doesn’t stop for weekends 2026-11-11 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Aurimas Bakas, CEO of Copla, talks about what the EU Cyber Resilience Act‘s reporting duties mean for manufacturers. He explains why companies need a register of every product version still in use, why boards […]
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EU cyber scores look healthy, but 45% of surveyed IT providers take months to patch 2026-11-11 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Forty-five percent of surveyed IT service management providers in the EU took more than three months to apply critical patches to critical systems, according to ENISA’s 2026 assessment of cybersecurity in the Union. Attackers […]
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IRISSCON 2026 puts preparedness for cyberattacks and hybrid threats in focus 2026-11-10 at 14:16 By Industry News Ireland risks being dangerously unprepared for increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and hybrid threats unless the Government acts urgently to strengthen the country’s national security capabilities, according to Brian Honan, head of the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service (IRISSCERT) […]
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Turla’s Cereal malware turns victims’ Exchange servers into spy hubs 2026-11-10 at 12:00 By Mirko Zorz Russia-aligned group Turla planted a modular .NET toolset on Microsoft Exchange servers at two government organizations, one in Kazakhstan and one in Romania, and used it to copy selected email straight out of the mail flow. ESET researchers found […]
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$133 million stolen from French bank via exploited service provider 2026-11-09 at 12:03 By Sinisa Markovic Attackers siphoned an estimated $133 million from Crédit Mutuel Arkéa by using the bank’s own account to wire money to other banks, from where it was possibly converted into cryptocurrency. The French cooperative banking group, which has €211.5 billion […]
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Cyberattack on Norway’s aid agency may have swept up all user data 2026-11-05 at 15:56 By Sinisa Markovic The names and email addresses of 20,614 people registered on Norad’s Grants Portal may have ended up in the hands of attackers, Norway’s development aid agency has disclosed. Norad, short for the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, […]
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Police seize over 100 servers linked to investment fraud with more than €4 million in losses 2026-11-03 at 16:31 By Sinisa Markovic Seven people have been arrested and more than 100 servers seized in a coordinated law enforcement action against an investment fraud network that started unravelling after a complaint from a German couple. Seized […]
345,000 email addresses stolen in cyberattack on Germany’s far-right party AfD 2026-10-28 at 16:28 By Sinisa Markovic Over 345,000 unique email addresses were exposed in the September 2026 breach at German far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) added the data to its database on 27 October, […]
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Cyberattack on University of Copenhagen exposes data of 525,000 people 2026-10-27 at 13:39 By Sinisa Markovic The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has ruled out a second cyberattack, saying the activity that led it to shut down several administrative systems on Monday is tied to the breach it disclosed last week, which exposed personal data belonging […]
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UK proposes 14-year jail terms for subsea cable saboteurs 2026-10-23 at 15:37 By Sinisa Markovic Damaging a cable on the seabed off the UK coast could soon cost someone 14 years of their life behind bars, under plans the British government published this week. The proposal comes from a White Paper by the Department for […]
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Sovereignty vs. security: Microsoft’s Roger Halbheer says you’re asking the wrong question 2026-10-22 at 10:02 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Roger Halbheer, Customer Security Officer at Microsoft, argues that digital sovereignty is a security question first. He explains why organizations underestimate speed, the time it takes to detect and stop […]
Why Active Directory weaknesses stay open for years in teams with one or two admins 2026-10-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz David Fuhr, CTO at intcube, talks about a security cohort for public administration, where 27 municipalities hardened Windows Server and Active Directory together over 12 weeks. This Help Net Security interview covers how a […]
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Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles owner joins growing list of fashion retailers targeted by hackers 2026-10-14 at 13:48 By Sinisa Markovic People who have shopped with Phase Eight, Hobbs or Whistles will have to wait to find out whether their personal information was exposed in a cyberattack on the company behind the three UK fashion […]
Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe 2026-10-09 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Modat and NCSC-NL, the Dutch government’s cybersecurity center, found 8,547 internet-facing systems at wind farms and solar parks in 35 countries in and around the EU that should not be reachable from the internet. The […]
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ASOS confirms data breach after “hacked” app alert reaches shoppers 2026-10-07 at 12:29 By Sinisa Markovic UK fashion retailer ASOS has confirmed a data breach after a notification claiming hackers had broken into its data was sent to shoppers through its app. ASOS was founded in 2000 and has 16.5 million active customers in more […]
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MAKERphone 2: A DIY 4G phone with plug-in camera, speaker and prototyping board 2026-10-05 at 12:50 By Mirko Zorz CircuitMess, a Croatian electronics kit maker, is selling MAKERphone 2.0, a build-it-yourself 4G phone on Kickstarter that buyers program in MicroPython or Arduino C++ and extend with plug-in hardware. Insert a SIM and it makes real […]
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Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target 2026-09-24 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Disruptive attacks on public-facing services, financially motivated cybercrime and compromises of shared technology providers are increasing cybersecurity risks across Europe. ENISA’s Threat Landscape 2026 identifies cybercrime, state-linked activity, foreign information manipulation and interference, hacktivism and vulnerability exploitation as key threats. Geopolitical […]
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European AI spending is on track to reach nearly $470 billion by 2030 2026-09-22 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz European organizations will spend nearly $470 billion on AI in 2030, IDC forecasts, with spending growing at a compound annual rate of 35% from 2025. At that rate, the market more than quadruples in five years. […]
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