Coverage of cybersecurity incidents, policy, public services, privacy, advisories, and regional developments connected to Portugal.
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Portugal covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Portugal, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving Portugal's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
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UK High Court Overturns Home Office Request to Extradite Diogo Santos CoelhoThe U.K. High Court of Justice on Sep. 11 overturned a Home Office request to extradite a Portuguese national and an alleged administrator of RaidForums who is wanted in the United States on charges of device fraud and aggravated identity theft charges.
GhostRedirector Compromising Windows Servers in Brazil, Thailand and VietnamA suspected Chinese cybercrime group is deploying custom malware to compromise Windows servers in Brazil, Thailand, Portugal and Vietnam as part of search engine optimization fraud to promote gambling websites.
Inside North Korea’s IT Scam Network Now Shifting to EuropeNorth Koreans posing as remote IT workers have spread to Europe, where one Pyongyang fraudster assumed at least 12 personas to target companies in Germany, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Western companies have grappled for years with the prospect of unintentionally hiring a North Korean national.