A cyberattack involving Denmark’s central civil registration system has exposed data linked to around 8.8 million registered individuals. According to the authorities, the attackers did not breach the government system directly but instead abused the legitimate access...
Cyber Security
Data Clean Rooms: A German White Paper Raises a Wider European Governance Question
A new white paper from Germany’s digital industry association BVDW examines Data Clean Rooms through the lens of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Although developed for the German programmatic advertising market, its findings point to a much wider European...
TWINLOOT abuses Microsoft 365 services for covert command-and-control operations
A newly discovered Python implant demonstrates how threat actors are increasingly embedding malicious infrastructure within legitimate cloud and collaboration platforms. TWINLOOT uses SharePoint, Microsoft Graph, Teams TURN relays and Microsoft Edge to conceal...
Data Centre Efficiency Needs a New Benchmark
As AI and high-performance computing push power densities to new levels, the traditional language of megawatts and annual electricity consumption is becoming less useful on its own. The more relevant question for operators, customers and policymakers is increasingly...
Cyber resilience becomes an economic investment criterion
Companies are increasingly assessing IT investment not only in terms of cost savings or productivity gains, but also by the contribution technology makes to operational resilience. Data platforms, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity are...
Cheap Credentials, Expensive Consequences: Europe’s Identity Security Problem
Dark-web markets show how ordinary email, cloud and social-media accounts have become low-cost commodities — and why European organisations need to rethink identity security The economics of cybercrime can be deceptively mundane. On underground marketplaces, a...
When the Attackers Become the Weakest Link: StopAndProtect Exposes a Global Cybercrime Infrastructure
An operational security failure has given researchers an unusually detailed view inside a large-scale cybercrime operation. The newly uncovered StopAndProtect campaign combines compromised WordPress websites, ClickFix social engineering, data theft and ransomware in a...
Hotel Wi-Fi as an Attack Surface: How Travellers Can Protect Devices and Corporate Data
Whether on a business trip, holiday, or conference, hotel Wi-Fi has become as routine as the room key. This familiarity is precisely what makes public networks attractive to attackers. In late July 2026, Microsoft Threat Intelligence reported a campaign referred to as...
Cyber Risk in the Age of AI: Why Human Behaviour Is Back at the Centre of Security
Generative AI is reshaping cyber risk on both sides of the threat equation. Attackers can scale social engineering with unprecedented speed and sophistication, while employees are increasingly turning to unsanctioned AI tools in their daily work. Two recent studies...
Cloud Sovereignty Becomes a Security Question: Euralarm Defines Five Criteria
Where a cloud is located tells us surprisingly little about who ultimately controls it. That distinction lies at the heart of Euralarm’s new guidance on the European Sovereign Cloud. For fire safety and physical security applications, the industry association...
