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France Invokes Geopolitical Instability to Mandate 2030 DeadlineA working quantum computer is probably at least a decade away. The rush to adopt encryption algorithms that can withstand the onslaught of a qubit attack has already begun, with European countries feeling variable levels of urgency. "Sooner is better in principle," an analyst said.
Over 600 security boffins say planned surveillance crosses the line Europe, long seen as a bastion of privacy and digital rights, will debate this week whether to enforce surveillance on citizens' devices.…
BERT is a newly emerged ransomware group that pairs simple code with effective execution—carrying out attacks across Europe and Asia. In this entry, we examine the group’s tactics, how their variants have evolved, and the tools they use to get past defenses and speed up encryption across platforms.
European Commission Demands Law Enforcement Access to DataThe European Commission’s ProtectEU strategy aims to overhaul internal security, proposing law enforcement access to encrypted data by 2026 and a roadmap to explore lawful encryption backdoors and enhanced intelligence-sharing between EU member states and agencies to combat rising cyber threats.
Weak Encryption, Data Transfers to China, Hidden ByteDance Links FoundSecurity researchers found DeepSeek AI has weak encryption, SQL injection flaws and sends user data to Chinese state-linked entities. Its AI model failed jailbreak tests, making it prone to manipulation. Regulators in Europe, South Korea, and Australia are investigating, with bans and warnings issued over security risks.
Platform Used for Drugs, Arms Trafficking and Money LaunderingFrench and Dutch police led the takedown of an encrypted messaging platform used in international drug and arms trafficking. Dutch police discovered the app, named Matrix, on the phone of a criminal convicted in 2021 of murdering a journalist.
Platform Used for Drugs, Arms trafficking, and Money LaunderingFrench and Dutch police led the takedown of an encrypted messaging platform used in international drug and arms trafficking. Dutch police discovered the app, named Matrix, on the phone of a criminal convicted in 2021 of murdering a journalist.
An APT hacking group known as GoldenJackal has successfully breached air-gapped government systems in Europe using two custom toolsets to steal sensitive data, like emails, encryption keys, images, archives, and documents. [...]
A controversial proposal put forth by the European Union to scan users' private messages for detection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) poses severe risks to end-to-end encryption (E2EE), warned Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the privacy-focused messaging service of the same name
European Police Chiefs said that the complementary partnership between law enforcement agencies and the technology industry is at risk due to end-to-end encryption (E2EE)
US, UK and European Authorities Seize Decryption Keys and Will Contact VictimsAn international law enforcement operation that infiltrated ransomware-as-a-service operation LockBit has resulted in arrests, indictments and the seizure of encryption keys that can be used to help victims recover their data. LockBit emerged in 2019 and was one of the largest ransomware operations.
Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights – a decision that may derail European data surveillance legislation known as Chat Control.…
Court of Human Rights Ruling Challenges Russian Data Interception in Telegram CaseA European court has sided with a Russian petitioner who challenged a Kremlin rule that requires telecom firms to backdoor their servers for law enforcement data collection. The court found that end-to-end encryption is essential to preserving the right to privacy in digital communication systems.
Authorities Hacked the End-to-End Encryption Platform in 2020The Dominican Republic earlier this month extradited to France a suspected administrator of now-defunct encrypted messaging service EncroChat. The extradition is the latest in a series of actions European authorities have been taking against EncroChat users since authorities penetrated its network.
ETSI Will Publicize Its Encrypted Protocol TETRA Used in Radio SystemsThe European telecom standards body behind a widely used radio encryption system will soon open-source its encryption protocols. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute on Tuesday said it will soon publish Terrestrial Trunked Radio, or TETRA, a European standard for radio communication.
Committee Amends Bill to State It Doesn't Prohibit or Weaken End-to-End EncryptionA key European parliamentary committee on Tuesday voted to carve off encrypted communications from a legislative proposal directing online providers to diminish the risk of child sexual abuse material. The European Parliament's LIBE Committee emphatically rejected weakening end-to-end encryption.
Emergency comms standard had five nasty flaws but will be opened to academic research A set of encryption algorithms used to secure emergency radio communications will enter the public domain after an about-face by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).…
EFF warns incoming rules may return web 'to the dark ages of 2011' Lawmakers in Europe are expected to adopt digital identity rules that civil society groups say will make the internet less secure and open up citizens to online surveillance.…
Proposal to break encryption to scan messages for abuse material challenged as illegal and unworkable Europe's proposed "Chat Control" legislation to automatically scan chat, email, and instant message communications for child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) ran up against broad resistance at a meeting of the German Parliament's (Bundestag) Digital Affairs Committee on Wednesday.…
Security expert challenges claim that bypassing encryption is essential to protecting kids Exclusive Laws in the UK and Europe have been proposed that would give authorities the power to undermine strong end-to-end encryption in the pursuit of, in their minds, justice.…