Europol: Fraudulent shopping sites tied to cybercrime marketplace taken offline

Europol has supported the dismantling of a sophisticated criminal network responsible for facilitating large-scale online fraud. In an operation led by the Hanover Police Department (Polizeidirektion Hannover) and the Verden Public Prosecutor’s Office (Staatsanwaltschaft Verden) in Germany, and supported by Read More …

APT trends report Q3 2024

In the second half of 2022, a wave of attacks from an unknown threat actor targeted victims with a new type of attack framework that we dubbed P8. The campaign targeted Vietnamese victims, mostly from the financial sector, with some Read More …

FUTURE FORCES EXHIBITION & FORUM 2024 to be the largest in its history 16–18 OCTOBER, PRAGUE

International defence and security community will meet again in Prague within the FUTURE FORCES FORUM 2024. This year’s edition will take place from 16 to 18 October at the PVA EXPO PRAGUE exhibition centre. The programme will be attended by Read More …

Europol and Eurojust support Czech and Ukrainian police in taking down multi-million euro voice phishing gang

The Czech and Ukrainian police have disrupted, with the support of Europol and Eurojust, a prolific phishing gang believed to have defrauded victims across Europe of tens of millions of euros. In Czechia alone, the damage caused by this criminal Read More …

Europol: Ragnar Locker ransomware gang taken down by international police swoop

This week, law enforcement and judicial authorities from eleven countries delivered a major blow to one of the most dangerous ransomware operations of recent years. This action, coordinated at international level by Europol and Eurojust, targeted the Ragnar Locker ransomware Read More …

Czechia: University of Defence victim of cyber-attack

Czechia’s University of Defence was the victim of a cyber-attack, with hackers evidently stealing data from the institution’s rector, iRozhlas.cz reported on Wednesday. The news website said the Municipal State Prosecutor’s Office in Brno was looking into the matter. A Read More …

North Korean hackers attack EU targets with Konni RAT malware

Threat analysts have uncovered a new campaign attributed to APT37, a North Korean group of hackers, targeting high-value organizations in the Czech Republic, Poland, and other European countries. In this campaign, the hackers use malware known as Konni, a remote Read More …

Prague Airport says thwarted several cyber attacks; hospitals also targeted

Prague Airport and a regional Czech hospital said on Saturday they had thwarted cyber attacks on their IT networks, reinforcing warnings by the national cyber security watchdog of likely attempts to harm the country’s infrastructure. “Attempted attacks on web pages Read More …