Today’s interdependent and interconnected world requires joint efforts and holistic approaches to protect critical infrastructure assets from the growing number of attacks and to address ever-evolving cyber threats to government, energy, healthcare, education, banking, transportation, telecommunication and other critical sectors.
With a dedicated section focusing on Critical Infrastructure protection, we aim to enhance cooperation and engage security professionals through news, articles and in-depth analysis of emerging threats and technologies.
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- Secure connectivity principles for Operational Technology (OT)
January 14, 2026
Operational technology (OT) environments – which have long been centred on safety, uptime, and operational continuity – are now more interconnected than ever. Driven by the need for increased efficiency, agility, and integration, these advancements offer significant operational benefits (such as real-time analytics, predictive maintenance and remote monitoring & administration), but they also introduce risks. Organisations ...
- Cybercrook claims to be selling infrastructure info about three major US utilities
January 2, 2026
A cybercrook claims to have breached Pickett and Associates, a Florida-based engineering firm whose clients include major US utilities, and is selling what they claim to be about 139 GB of engineering data about Tampa Electric Company, Duke Energy Florida, and American Electric Power. The price is 6.5 bitcoin, which amounts to about $585,000. Based in ...
- France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack
December 23, 2025
France’s national postal and banking services were knocked offline by a suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Monday, according to an announcement by La Poste. The postal service called the attack “a major network incident” that was disrupting “all of our information systems.” La Poste’s online mail and banking services, website, and mobile app are among ...
- Romania: Around 1,000 systems compromised in ransomware attack on water agency
December 22, 2025
Romania’s cybersecurity agency confirms a major ransomware attack on the country’s water management administration has compromised around 1,000 systems, with work to remediate them still ongoing. Administrația Națională Apele Române (Romanian Waters) says its geographical information system applications servers, database servers, Windows workstations, Windows Servers, email and web servers, and domain name servers are all affected. ...
- Denmark blames Russia for cyberattacks on water utility and local government websites
December 18, 2025
The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two “destructive and disruptive” cyber-attacks in what it describes as “very clear evidence” of a hybrid war. The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in 2024 and a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ...
- Amazon security boss blames Russia’s GRU for years-long energy-sector hacks
December 15, 2025
Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind a years-long campaign targeting energy, telecommunications, and tech providers, stealing credentials and compromising misconfigured devices hosted on AWS to give the Kremlin’s snoops persistent access to sensitive networks, according to Amazon’s security boss. “The campaign demonstrates sustained focus on Western critical infrastructure, particularly the energy sector, with operations spanning ...
- Iranian hacker group deploys malicious Snake game to target Egyptian and Israeli critical infrastructure
December 3, 2025
An Iranian-aligned hacking group tracked as ‘MuddyWater’ has dramatically shifted tactics in attacks against Israeli and Egyptian critical infrastructure. Previous campaigns by the group, observed by ESET Research, were characteristically noisy in their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) making them easily detectable. However, the group has begun employing a new backdoor deployed via the Fooder loader, ...
- NHS Highland staff ‘poor practice’ sparks fears of heightened risk of a major cyber attack
December 1, 2025
NHS Highland is at heightened risk of falling prey to a major cyber attack in part due to “poor practice” by some staff members. The warning, contained in a report to the board assessing risk levels faced in a range of areas against what is deemed an acceptable level of risk, comes as the busy ...
- #StopRansomware: Akira Ransomware
November 13, 2025
The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and partner organisations are releasing this joint advisory to disseminate known Akira ransomware IOCs and TTPs identified through FBI investigations and trusted third-party reporting as recently as November 2025. Akira ransomware threat actors are associated with other groups known as Storm-1567, Howling Scorpius, Punk Spider, and Gold Sahara, ...