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DDoS attacks target EU political parties as elections begin

Hacktivists are conducting DDoS attacks on European political parties that represent and promote strategies opposing their interests, according to a report by Cloudflare.
- Bill Toulas
- June 08, 2024
- 10:12 AM
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Opera sees big jump in EU users on iOS, Android after DMA update

Opera has reported a substantial 164% increase in new European Union users on iOS devices after Apple introduced a new feature to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA).
- Mayank Parmar
- March 23, 2024
- 12:59 PM
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Microsoft: Iranian hackers target researchers with new MediaPl malware

Microsoft says that a group of Iranian-backed state hackers are targeting high-profile employees of research organizations and universities across Europe and the United States in spearphishing attacks pushing new backdoor malware.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 17, 2024
- 03:39 PM
- 0
Meta faces EU ban on Facebook, Instagram targeted advertising

The European Data Protection Board has extended the temporary ban on targeted advertising on Facebook and Instagram, imposed by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) in July.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 01, 2023
- 07:45 PM
- 0
European govt email servers hacked using Roundcube zero-day

The Winter Vivern Russian hacking group has been exploiting a Roundcube Webmail zero-day since at least October 11 to attack European government entities and think tanks.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 25, 2023
- 07:00 AM
- 0
Air Europa data breach: Customers warned to cancel credit cards

Spanish airline Air Europa, the country's third-largest airline and a member of the SkyTeam alliance, warned customers on Monday to cancel their credit cards after attackers accessed their card information in a recent data breach.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- October 10, 2023
- 01:45 PM
- 0
TikTok slapped with $368 million fine over child privacy violations

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €345 million ($368 million) for violating the privacy of children between the ages of 13 and 17 while processing their data.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 15, 2023
- 09:05 AM
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Windows 11 browser change: Europe applauds, outrage everywhere else

Microsoft will soon allow users in the European Union, as well as from Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway, to once again open all links in Windows using their default web browser rather than forcing the use of Microsoft Edge.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 30, 2023
- 05:08 PM
- 4
Microsoft: Chinese hackers breached US govt Exchange email accounts

A Chinese hacking group has breached the email accounts of more than two dozen organizations worldwide, including U.S. and Western European government agencies, according to Microsoft.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 12, 2023
- 08:51 AM
- 2
EU slaps Meta with $1.3 billion fine for moving data to US servers

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced a $1.3 billion fine on Facebook after claiming that the company violated Article 46(1) of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).
- Bill Toulas
- May 22, 2023
- 11:04 AM
- 3
Critical infrastructure also hit by supply chain attack behind 3CX breach

The X_Trader software supply chain attack that led to last month's 3CX breach has also impacted at least several critical infrastructure organizations in the United States and Europe, according to Symantec's Threat Hunter Team.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- April 21, 2023
- 03:26 PM
- 6
Microsoft fixes Outlook zero-day used by Russian hackers since April 2022

Microsoft has patched an Outlook zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) exploited by a hacking group linked to Russia's military intelligence service GRU to target European organizations.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 14, 2023
- 03:11 PM
- 3
European police takes down call centers behind cryptocurrency scams

Multiple call centers across Europe controlled by a criminal organization involved in online investment fraud were taken down this week following a cross-border investigation started in June 2022.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- January 12, 2023
- 12:25 PM
- 0
Pro-Russian hacktivists take down EU Parliament site in DDoS attack

The website of the European Parliament has been taken down following a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack claimed by Anonymous Russia, part of the pro-Russian hacktivist group Killnet.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- November 23, 2022
- 12:21 PM
- 0
Police dismantle pirated TV streaming network with 500,000 users

The Spanish police have dismantled a network of pirated streaming sites that illegally distributed content from 2,600 TV channels and 23,000 movies and series to roughly 500,000 users.
- Bill Toulas
- November 16, 2022
- 09:55 AM
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Largest EU copper producer Aurubis suffers cyberattack, IT outage

German copper producer Aurubis has announced that it suffered a cyberattack that forced it to shut down IT systems to prevent the attack's spread.
- Bill Toulas
- October 28, 2022
- 01:16 PM
- 0
Akamai stopped new record-breaking DDoS attack in Europe

A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took place on Monday, September 12, has broken the previous record that Akamai recorded recently in July.
- Bill Toulas
- September 15, 2022
- 02:28 PM
- 0
HP will pay customers for blocking non-HP ink cartridges in EU

HP printer owners forced to use HP ink and toner cartridges in Europe will receive compensation from the vendor for not adequately informing them about the limitations of the devices they bought.
- Bill Toulas
- September 12, 2022
- 01:24 PM
- 1
Google says former Conti ransomware members now attack Ukraine

Google says some former Conti cybercrime gang members, now part of a threat group tracked as UAC-0098, are targeting Ukrainian organizations and European non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
- Sergiu Gatlan
- September 07, 2022
- 07:00 AM
- 0
Chinese hackers use new Windows malware to backdoor govt, defense orgs

An extensive series of attacks detected in January used new Windows malware to backdoor government entities and organizations in the defense industry from several countries in Eastern Europe.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 08, 2022
- 09:36 AM
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