Photos: Infosecurity Europe 2026
Infosecurity Europe 2026 is a cybersecurity event that took place from June 2 to 4 in London. Help Net Security was on-site and here’s a closer look at the conference. …
Thieves can pull off keyless car theft in under a minute and here’s how to stop them
A keyless car can be stolen in under a minute. Two people, a pair of cheap radio amplifiers, and a fob sitting on a hallway table inside the house. That is enough. No broken …
A small Slovenian team handles 6,000 cyber incidents a year
Online fraud complaints, ransomware cases, and phishing tips reach Slovenia’s national cyber response center in steady volume, and a team of around a dozen analysts …
Dutch police disrupts botnet composed of 17 million devices
The Dutch National Police and the country’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) have taken offline 200 servers controlling a botnet of 17 million devices, the law …
Authorities dismantle First VPN, used by ransomware actors
First VPN, a virtual private network service marketed to cybercriminals, promising anonymity for its users, was taken offline on May 19 and 20 as part of Operation Saffron. …
Webworm APT targets European government organizations with new backdoors
ESET has released an analysis of the 2025 activity of Webworm, a China-aligned APT group tracked as Space Pirates and UAT-8302. Active since at least 2022, the group initially …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
EU Parliament backs extension of CSAM detection rules until 2027
The European Parliament has voted to extend a temporary exemption to EU privacy legislation that allows online platforms to voluntarily detect child sexual abuse material …
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