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Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe

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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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Suspected state-sponsored hackers exploited NetScaler zero-day since early September (CVE-2026-88772)

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Suspected state-sponsored hackers exploited NetScaler zero-day since early September (CVE-2026-88772) 2026-09-30 at 15:33 By Zeljka Zorz “Advanced and suspected state-sponsored threat actors” are likely to be behind the initial targeted intrusions that leveraged CVE-2026-88772, one of the two recently disclosed NetScaler vulnerabilities that have been exploited as zero-days, says Mandiant CTO Charles Carmakal. Mandiant and […]

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Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target

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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

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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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Self-improving AI should slow down, von der Leyen tells EU lawmakers

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Self-improving AI should slow down, von der Leyen tells EU lawmakers 2026-09-16 at 14:28 By Mirko Zorz European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants frontier AI development slowed, and said on Wednesday that she will invite the leading AI labs to discuss how the EU can support their own efforts to do that. In […]

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ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform for actively exploited vulnerabilities

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ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform for actively exploited vulnerabilities 2026-09-14 at 15:23 By Sinisa Markovic The EU Agency for Cybersecurity switched on the Cyber Resilience Act‘s Single Reporting Platform on 11 September 2026, the same day the law’s reporting obligations started binding manufacturers. ENISA built the tool and runs its day-to-day operations, a […]

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A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller

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A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller 2026-09-02 at 12:00 By Mirko Zorz Batteries connected to the grid make money by reacting to frequency, pushing power out when it sags and soaking it up when it rises. A few hundred of them moving together, on command from someone who should […]

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Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported

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Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported 2026-09-02 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive. It works. It also exposed something more uncomfortable: reporting a bad ad to […]

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Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers

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Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers 2026-09-01 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Askeal takes the opposite approach to omniscient Gen AI: rather than pretending to know everything, it combines AI with community expertise. Vetted vendors, researchers, and practitioners contribute their intelligence and tools to help users conduct manual investigations. The startup, […]

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NIS2 compliance: Fixing IAM and access control before the 2026 audit

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NIS2 compliance: Fixing IAM and access control before the 2026 audit 2026-09-01 at 08:00 By Help Net Security The NIS2 Directive places direct obligations on organizations across supply chain risk management, incident reporting, and board-level accountability. October brings a new wave of legally binding deadlines across the EU, as member states move from transposition into […]

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AI will not fix a governance problem in your camera estate

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AI will not fix a governance problem in your camera estate 2026-08-27 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Camera systems often outlive the companies that install them. In this Help Net Security interview, Rob Janssens, EMEA Cyber Security Director at Hikvision Europe, discusses what happens when the integrator is gone, the documentation is lost, and nobody […]

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Banks look for fraud signals in customer behavior

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Banks look for fraud signals in customer behavior 2026-08-19 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Banks are dealing with more fraud in which customers authorize payments after being manipulated by criminals. ThreatMark’s Fraud Readiness Benchmark 2026 describes a banking environment where social engineering, reimbursement requirements and growing case volumes are changing fraud operations. Social engineering moves […]

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17 draft Cyber Resilience Act standards are open for comment

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17 draft Cyber Resilience Act standards are open for comment 2026-08-14 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec A company selling a connected toy in Europe must show by the end of 2027 that the product meets the Cyber Resilience Act. The law states what manufacturers have to achieve and stops there, which leaves the toymaker to […]

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Ransomware Threats in Europe H1 2026: A Deep Dive into Regional Attack Patterns and Dominant Threat Actors

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Ransomware Threats in Europe H1 2026: A Deep Dive into Regional Attack Patterns and Dominant Threat Actors 2026-08-07 at 13:58 By Mihir Bagwe Europe faced a ransomware onslaught in the first half of 2026 that sets a troubling precedent for the remainder of the year. According to Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL), the region […]

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What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like

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What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like 2026-08-07 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, answers questions on Article 50 of the EU AI Act and what the first year of enforcement might bring. He explains why corrective orders […]

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Ransomware gangs find Europe’s weakest link in third-party suppliers

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Ransomware gangs find Europe’s weakest link in third-party suppliers 2026-06-26 at 12:49 By Anamarija Pogorelec Ransomware attacks against European organizations increased during the first months of 2026, with third-party suppliers becoming a major entry point for attackers. Black Kite examined 2,066 ransomware incidents across 31 countries between January 2025 and April 2026 in its 2026 […]

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Mystery hackers use novel SharkLoader dropper against governments, software devs

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Mystery hackers use novel SharkLoader dropper against governments, software devs 2026-06-26 at 12:13 By Zeljka Zorz Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a previously unknown cyberattack campaign that has compromised government organizations and software development companies in multiple countries. They first stumbled onto the campaign while investigating an attack on a diplomatic organization in Indonesia. What initially […]

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Binance withdraws Greece-filed MiCA application

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Binance withdraws Greece-filed MiCA application 2026-06-24 at 18:47 By Ezra Reguerra Binance said it plans to seek authorization in another EU jurisdiction just days ahead of the July 1 MiCA deadline, as unlicensed crypto firms are expected to wind down activities in the bloc. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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OpenPayd secures MiCA license as stablecoin adoption grows in Europe

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OpenPayd secures MiCA license as stablecoin adoption grows in Europe 2026-06-24 at 10:17 By Helen Partz OpenPayd, which provides infrastructure to companies including Kraken crypto exchange, can now offer regulated crypto services across Europe under MiCA. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Chainlink joins European and Korean bank consortia to develop FX settlement network

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Chainlink joins European and Korean bank consortia to develop FX settlement network 2026-06-23 at 18:45 By Sam Bourgi Banks across Europe and South Korea will study whether regulated euro and won stablecoins can enable real-time cross-border foreign exchange settlement. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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