Europe
ECB orders for Cyber Attack Stress test on banks
From 2024, the ECB will launch cyber attacks on major noted banks to check their IT infrastructure’s cyber resilience towards sophisticated attacks. Andrea Enria, the head of the ECB, announced the decision Supervisory, after banks operating in Europe observed a sharp rise in attacks on their infrastructure, after the start of the Russian war with […]
Satellite jamming by Russia leads to aircraft rerouting in Europe
Unconfirmed sources from EU Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) state that Russia has started influencing satellites that is showing a direct impact on the aviation industry as several aircraft had to be rerouted while in Eastern Finland, the Black Sea, eastern Mediterranean, and Kaliningrad. Such instances started on February 28th this year and could be an […]
Cloud usage by Public Sector to be seriously probed by European Data Protection Board
In coming weeks, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has decided to launch a serious probe into the use of cloud services by the public sector. Therefore, from May 2022 around 22 national authorities across the European Economic Area (EEA) will be asked to probe firms operating in/for healthcare, finance, tax, and IT services/ Highly […]
Cyber Attack on Europe’s major Oil terminal
A Cyber Attack on Europe’s major oil terminal could trigger an oil shortage in coming days and that too at the time when the entire nation was suffering to curtail the already high energy prices. Cybersecurity Insiders have learnt that the fuel shortage is being caused because of a digital attack that has affected all […]
European Union proposes Joint Cyber Unit for large scale Cyber Attacks
European Union has proposed a Joint Cyber Unit to defend its IT infrastructure against sophisticated cyber attacks and the knee-jerk reaction comes after witnessing the repercussions caused by Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack in the United States a few weeks ago. Every year, the number of incidents targeting Europe is rising on an exponential note and […]
Europe Super Computers being fraudulently used to mine Cryptocurrency
Just a week ago reports were in that the Supercomputer named Archer from Europe was cyber-attacked by hackers to steal critical information about the research and development taken up by Universities and Government to find a vaccine for COVID 19. Now the news is out that almost all the supercomputers operating in Germany, UK, Switzerland, […]
Cyber Attack on European Power Grid and Radio com
As the world is struggling to contain the spread of Coronavirus, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity(ENTSO-E) says that it has become a victim of a cyber-attack recently that impacted its operations at the office network. FYI, ENTSO-E is a transmission operator for almost 43 electric stations and a cyber-attack of any […]
Large scale cyber attacks on EU law enforcement agencies says EUROPOL
EUROPOL says that the law enforcement agencies operating across Europe are preparing for large scale cyberattacks from foreign countries. And to counter these attacks the EU council has decided to adopt an EU Law Enforcement Emergency Response Protocol which gives a pivotal role to EC3- European Cyber Crime Center. “The whole framework is designed such […]
Russia APT28 Cyber Attacks European Political Parties
After launching Cyber attacks on the US Democratic National Committee Servers in 2016 to access sensitive info and then the German Council on Foreign Relations and European Offices of the Aspen Institute & the German Marshall Fund; news is now out that Russian intelligence funded hacking group APT28 aka Fancy Bear has targeted some of […]
Information Security Digital Privacy law tops EU Google’s Search List 2018
From May 25th, 2018 European Union announced the world’s toughest rules for companies offering online services to the populace of the region. And the internet juggernaut Google has claimed that its search engine was fueled with queries related to the digital privacy law in the whole of 2018. As per the most search stats released […]
