Cyberaanval treft Franse banken en post in hectische kerstperiode post, december 22, 2025januari 5, 2026 De online diensten van het Franse postbedrijf La Poste zijn maandagochtend getroffen door een cyberaanval. Ook banken in het land werden het doelwit. Daarmee zouden in totaal miljoenen Fransen zijn getroffen door de aanval. La Poste bevestigt de ddos-aanval in een verklaring. Er zijn geen gevolgen voor de klantgegevens, benadrukt… Continue Reading
Major Cyberattack Disrupts Heathrow & Other European Airports post, september 20, 2025september 22, 2025 Air travel across several major European hubs has been severely disrupted after what is being described as a cyber-attack on a key service provider responsible for check-in and boarding systems. The incident, which has impacted airports including London’s Heathrow, Brussels Airport, and Berlin Brandenburg Airport, has led to widespread delays,… Continue Reading
Noisy Bear Targets Kazakhstan Energy Sector With BarrelFire Phishing Campaign post, september 6, 2025september 8, 2025 A threat actor possibly of Russian origin has been attributed to a new set of attacks targeting the energy sector in Kazakhstan. The activity, codenamed Operation BarrelFire, is tied to a new threat group tracked by Seqrite Labs as Noisy Bear. The threat actor has been active since at least… Continue Reading
The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure post, augustus 22, 2025augustus 25, 2025 Russia is waging an unconventional war on Europe. Through its campaign of sabotage, vandalism, espionage and covert action, Russia’s aim has been to destabilise European governments, undermine public support for Ukraine by imposing social and economic costs on Europe, and weaken the collective ability of NATO and the European Union… Continue Reading
Russian hackers took control of Norwegian dam, police chief says post, augustus 13, 2025september 1, 2025 The Norwegian Police Security Service suspects pro-Russian hackers sabotaged a dam in southwestern Norway in April. Norwegian daily newspaper VG reported that the hackers breached the dam’s control system, opening valves for four hours, sending large amounts of water gushing forth until the valves could be shut. Continue Reading
Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked post, augustus 7, 2025augustus 25, 2025 Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, and military forces around the world–that made any communication secured with the algorithm vulnerable to eavesdropping. When the researchers publicly disclosed the issue in 2023, the… Continue Reading
APT-C-36 Hackers Attacking Government Institutions, Financial Organizations, and Critical Infrastructure post, juni 27, 2025juli 3, 2025 Since 2018, the advanced persistent threat group APT-C-36, commonly known as Blind Eagle, has emerged as a formidable cyber adversary targeting critical sectors across Latin America. This sophisticated threat actor has demonstrated persistent focus on Colombian organizations, launching coordinated attacks against government institutions, financial organizations, and critical infrastructure through carefully orchestrated phishing… Continue Reading
Department of Homeland Security Warns of Iranian Cyberattacks Following Devastating Strikes On Nuclear Sites post, juni 22, 2025juni 23, 2025 Following President Donald Trump’s “massive precision strikes” on Iran’s Nuclear facilities, concerns are mounting over the safety of Americans both abroad and at home—especially amid fears of retaliatory cyberattacks. The United States launched strikes on three sites in Iran early Sunday, marking a significant escalation in Israel’s ongoing conflict aimed… Continue Reading
China Is Studying How to Hack and Crash Our Power Grids post, juni 19, 2025juni 23, 2025 Over the past several weeks, I’ve been conducting a large-scale bibliometric study on publicly available Chinese academic literature related to hacking and crashing Western power grids. In this article, I’m sharing the main findings of that study. EDIT (20.6.2025, 8:54 CET): All of the Chinese academic articles I examined are… Continue Reading
Google Cloud and Cloudflare hit by widespread service outages post, juni 12, 2025juni 13, 2025 Update June 12, 17:41 EDT: In new updates, Cloudflare said that all services have been restored and are now fully operational, while Google stated it expects “recovery to complete in less than an hour.” Update June 12, 15:29 EDT: Cloudflare says its services were impacted by Google Cloud’s outage. “This is a Google Cloud… Continue Reading