Tag: Europe
Toshiba’s European Subsidiary Confirms Ransomware Attack; DarkSide’s Involvement Suspected
As the ransomware pandemic ravages through the big and small size industries alike, the Japanese tech giant joins the list of those affected by...
Russian Networks Accused of Carrying Out Massive Cyberattack on Ukraine
A “Second Cold War” of sorts has been brewing between Ukraine and Russia ever since the latter annexed the Republic of Crimea in 2014...
Apodis Pharma Exposes Over 1.7 TB of Confidential Company Data
French healthcare software company, Apodis Pharma, was notified by researchers at CyberNews about a possible data leak. CyberNews researchers discovered a misconfigured and unencrypted...
Operation Carding Action 2020 Cracks Down Credit Card Scammers
In a joint operation dubbed as “Carding Action 2020,” lead by Police authorities of Italy and Hungary, and assisted by authorities of the U.K....
Chinese E-Commerce Scammers Trade Customer PII and Payment Card Data on...
A Chinese e-commerce cyber-espionage campaign is suspected to be illicitly collecting payment information of unwitting consumers via hundreds of fraudulent e-commerce websites that appear...
ICO’s Ticket for Data Breach! Ticketmaster Fined £1.25 Mn Over 2018...
The U.K.’s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) recently penalized Ticketing website Ticketmaster for £1.25 million ($1.65 million) following a data breach in 2018. The privacy...
Why Europeans Don’t Trust U.S. Organizations with their Data
A study from pCloud, a European file-sharing and cloud storage provider, revealed that 82% of Europeans do not trust U.S. technology firms with their...
Web Application Threat! U.S. Retailers More Vulnerable than European Counterparts
Outpost24, an innovator in identifying and managing cybersecurity exposure, stated that online sales surged by 30% globally in the wake of the pandemic, which...
“Invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was a long time coming”
The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was invalidated by the ECJ in July this year. The changes came into effect a month later but were the...
CYBERSEC Global 2020: Together Against Adversarial Internet
All those extra cups of coffee, long hours at the desk with our headphones on, and staying glued to our screens for the past...