EU organizations buckle under rising compliance pressure 2026-06-01 at 08:19 By Sinisa Markovic Cybersecurity governance in the EU is shifting under expanding frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA, while AI raises new questions for security teams. What the future brings is hard to predict, and organizations must find a way to cope. Antonija Vojnović, Governance, […]
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Police arrest suspect in Ajax football club hack that exposed 300,000 fan records 2026-05-28 at 10:10 By Sinisa Markovic The Dutch National Police arrested a man suspected of hacking into the computer systems of AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam. “On the morning of Tuesday, May 26, detectives arrested a 35-year-old man from the
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Authorities seize 800 servers used for cyberattacks and disinformation 2026-05-25 at 16:59 By Sinisa Markovic Dutch authorities arrested two men and seized 800 servers linked to a hosting provider that investigators say supported Russian activities aimed at undermining democracy and security through cyberattacks, disinformation, and disruption of public and economic systems. Servers seized by Dutch
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Game over for 74 suspected scammers after Dutch cops plastered their faces on billboards 2026-05-18 at 20:34 By Sinisa Markovic The Dutch police’s Game Over?! campaign, which publicly displays images of suspected fraudsters to encourage self-surrenders and gather public tips, is proving successful, with the identities of 74 of the 100 suspects shown already identified.
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Poor security left hackers inside water company network for nearly two years 2026-05-11 at 18:29 By Sinisa Markovic The UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), fined South Staffordshire Water’s parent company £963,900 over security failures linked to a cyberattack that exposed the personal data of 633,887 people. According to the ICO, the
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Police take down relaunched criminal marketplace with 22,000 users, €3.6 million in revenue 2026-05-11 at 16:48 By Sinisa Markovic German authorities shut down a relaunched version of the criminal marketplace Crimenetwork and arrested its suspected operator. The domain seizure notice (Source: BKA) A special unit of the Spanish National Police arrested the suspected 35-year-old German
15-year-old detained over massive data breach at French government agency 2026-05-04 at 13:11 By Sinisa Markovic French authorities have detained a 15-year-old suspected of involvement in a data breach at France Titres, the government agency responsible for issuing official documents. “Between 12 and 18 million data records were reportedly being offered for sale on cybercriminal
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Met Police face criticism for using AI to spy on their own officers 2026-04-30 at 15:31 By Sinisa Markovic London police officers have been warned by the Metropolitan Police Federation to watch their backs after the force deployed controversial AI software to investigate misconduct. The staff association, representing more than 30,000 officers in London, reported
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Hackers arrested for stealing and reselling 600,000 Roblox accounts 2026-04-30 at 15:31 By Sinisa Markovic Ukrainian police detained three suspects accused of hacking into Roblox accounts and reselling the data on Russian websites, with payments made in cryptocurrency. Police raid (Source: The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine) “Prosecutors of the Lviv region, together with the
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Police arrest 10 suspected members of Black Axe cybercrime gang 2026-04-28 at 22:35 By Sinisa Markovic A coordinated police operation in Switzerland has targeted suspected members of the Black Axe criminal network. On 28 April 2026, authorities carried out house searches across several Swiss cantons, leading to 10 arrests, including the Black Axe ‘Regional Head’
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Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Sinisa Markovic French police have arrested a suspected hacker linked to a series of data breaches affecting organizations in the country. Citing authorities, Le Parisien reported that the suspect, a 20-year-old man using the alias ‘HexDex,’ was taken into
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If cyber espionage via HDMI worries you, NCSC built a device to stop it 2026-04-23 at 14:17 By Sinisa Markovic A new cybersecurity device developed by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) should be a helpful solution for protecting governments and businesses from malicious activity carried through display connections. Called SilentGlass, the plug-and-play tool is
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GDPR works, but only where someone enforces it 2026-04-23 at 07:32 By Sinisa Markovic A new measurement study of web tracking across ten countries offers a reality check for anyone working on privacy compliance. Researchers crawled the same set of globally popular websites from virtual machines located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Singapore, South
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Cyberattack on French government agency triggers phishing alert 2026-04-22 at 19:55 By Sinisa Markovic France Titres, a French government agency, has disclosed a data breach that may have exposed user data from its online portal. France Titres, also known as the Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (ANTS), operates under the French Ministry of the Interior
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EU pushes for stronger cloud sovereignty, awards €180 million to four providers 2026-04-20 at 10:30 By Sinisa Markovic The European Commission is stepping up efforts to strengthen the EU’s digital sovereignty by awarding a cloud services tender worth up to €180 million over six years. The initiative gives EU institutions and agencies access to sovereign
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Four Nationally Significant Cyberattacks Every Week — Is the UK Ready? 2026-04-17 at 17:52 By Ashish Khaitan The tempo of UK cyberattacks has shifted from sporadic disruption to something far more systemic. When incidents reach a frequency of four national events each week, the issue stops being purely technical and becomes structural. It raises a more uncomfortable
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EU cybersecurity standards are at risk if supplier ban passes 2026-04-16 at 10:16 By Mirko Zorz Today, the European standards body ETSI sent a formal position paper to the European Commission, calling for changes to the proposed Cybersecurity Act 2 (CSA2), the EU’s planned revision to its existing cybersecurity certification framework. The paper focuses on
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What the EU AI Act requires for AI agent logging 2026-04-16 at 09:02 By Help Net Security The EU AI Act is 144 pages long. The logging requirements that matter for AI agent developers sit across four articles that keep referencing each other. Here’s what they say, when the deadlines hit, and where the gaps
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European AI spending set to hit $290 billion by 2029 2026-04-16 at 07:47 By Sinisa Markovic European enterprises are committing serious money to AI, and the numbers are accelerating. According to IDC’s Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide, AI spending across Europe will reach $290 billion by 2029, growing at a compound annual growth
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Coordinated vulnerability disclosure is now an EU obligation, but cultural change takes time 2026-04-15 at 10:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Nuno Rodrigues Carvalho, Head of Sector for Incident and Vulnerability Services at ENISA, discusses the recent CVE funding scare and what it exposed about the fragility of global vulnerability disclosure