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Police arrest 10 suspected members of Black Axe cybercrime gang

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 …

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Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars

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 …

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If cyber espionage via HDMI worries you, NCSC built a device to stop it

A new cybersecurity device developed by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) should be a helpful solution for protecting governments and businesses from malicious …

Europe
GDPR works, but only where someone enforces it

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 …

France Titres
Cyberattack on French government agency triggers phishing alert

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 …

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EU pushes for stronger cloud sovereignty, awards €180 million to four providers

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 …

Europe
EU cybersecurity standards are at risk if supplier ban passes

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 …

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What the EU AI Act requires for AI agent logging

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, …

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European AI spending set to hit $290 billion by 2029

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 …

Nuno Rodrigues Carvalho
Coordinated vulnerability disclosure is now an EU obligation, but cultural change takes time

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 …

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Basic-Fit hack compromises data of up to 1 million members

Basic-Fit, a European gym chain, disclosed that hackers breached one of its internal systems, exposing members’ personal data in several countries. The company operates more …

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Seized VerifTools servers expose 915,655 fake IDs, 8 arrested

On April 7 and 8, Dutch police arrested eight suspects in a nationwide operation targeting users of the VerifTools platform as part of an identity fraud investigation. The …

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