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Four different countries, including the United States and Germany, were included in the latest international operation alongside Europol's support.
The draft amendment also includes prison time for those who access systems to maliciously spy or intercept data.
The funds from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund will be used to integrate security features such as zero trust capabilities and tools for software bill of materials.
Computer infrastructure in the US, UK, and Germany associated with the cybercriminal group, which targeted SMBs using double extortion, is officially out of commission.
It's finally happening: Rather than just for productivity and research, threat actors are using LLMs to write malware. But companies need not worry just yet.
It's unclear what kind of cyberattack VARTA AG is facing, but it has shut down its systems until it can become operational again.
The company, Modern Solutions, had misconfigured a cloud database, but argues the contractor could only have found the password through insider knowledge.
The country's election commission pointed the blame at traffic coming from Ukraine and Germany.
A more proactive approach to fighting cyberattacks for US companies and agencies is shaping up under the CISA's proposal to emphasize real-time attack detection and response.
Academics in Germany figured out how to reverse time in AMD virtualization environments, then reap the spoils.
Some of the users who were impacted include the US Department of Justice, the NSA, and the FBI, alongside German intelligence agencies.
With shades of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, German political parties skirted consumer data privacy regulations during the country's last parliamentary election, a privacy watchdog warns.
After Berlin pledged tanks for Ukraine, some German websites were knocked offline temporarily by Killnet DDoS attacks.
Operators of The Real Deal and German Deep Web underground marketplaces are in custody for allegedly dealing in drugs, weapons, malware, and more.
Head of German national cybersecurity agency was fired over ties to a member of Russian intelligence once honored by Vladimir Putin.